A Holiday Surprise for the Unboxing Boy The Unboxing Boy is back with a festive twist, unwrapping five surprise physical-media gifts handpicked by his wife. Expect plenty of genuine reactions and holiday cheer as he dives into each package. Don’t miss out—subscribe to The Ringer-Verse and Bill Simmons channels on YouTube, check out the Ringer shop and website, and follow on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more unboxing fun! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Google just dropped Antigravity on Nov 18, 2025, their new AI agent-first IDE that's like having a senior engineer as your co-pilot. I'm Samuel Adekunle, your Senior Flutter guy, and in this article, I will guide you through how best to install and configure Google Antigravity for use. We will also explore key concepts of Antigravity, such as Agent Manager, Editor, and Browser, and use my website as a use case with Antigravity. Alright, quick backstory: Antigravity launched alongside Gemini 3, Google's beast-mode AI model for reasoning and multi-modal tasks. It's free in public preview right now, and download is available for Mac, Windows, or Linux. No cost, generous rate limits on Gemini 3 Pro (resets every 5 hours), and it plays nice with Claude Sonnet 4.5 or even OpenAI's GPT-OSS. Why the hype? It's 'agentic' - meaning AI agents handle tasks autonomously, like debugging a web app or generating UI from sketches. It's not just code completion; it's task delegation. Quick features rundown - tailored for us Flutter folks: Agent Interface: Delegate tasks via natural language in the editor, terminal, or browser preview. How-to: Type '/agent [task]' - e.g., '/agent Fix this Flutter responsive grid for iOS Safari.' Multi-Model Support: Swap Gemini 3 for Claude if you need creative UI gen. How-to: Settings > Models > Select. Rate limits? Chill for solos. Proof-of-Work Tracing: Every change logs why the agent did it - audit trail for team collabs. Huge for architecture reviews. Async Feedback Loop: Agents iterate based on your 'nah, make it more vibe-y' inputs. How-to: Hit 'Refine' and describe. Cross-Platform Magic: Runs local, no cloud lock-in. Integrates with VS Code extensions if you hybrid.  ( 7 min )

2025 is shaping up to be the year of Gemini 3. Google’s newest flagship model hasn’t just caught up with OpenAI — many developers argue it has leapfrogged GPT-4 in the areas that matter most: reasoning, multimodality, and real-world performance. At AilonTech, we’ve been closely following the shift… and this one is big. 🔥 A True Leap in Reasoning Gemini 3 doesn’t just predict text — it thinks. Developers are reporting major improvements in: Multi-step logic Long-code reasoning Architecture planning Problem-solving accuracy “Gemini 3 doesn’t just write code — it understands the intent behind the architecture.” This qualitative jump is why many experts are calling it a quantum leap, not an incremental upgrade. 🧊 Why OpenAI Is Feeling the Pressure The Context Window Advantage Gemini 3 supports an effectively infinite context window for most workflows. OpenAI models still struggle with long-session retention. Deep Ecosystem Integration Google is embedding Gemini 3 into: Android Google Cloud Workspace Chrome Pixel devices This is an OS-level intelligence layer, not just a chatbot. The Developer “Vibe Shift” Check X and Reddit — the conversation has changed. Speed Accuracy Tool use Vision and video tasks For the first time in years, momentum has shifted away from OpenAI. 🧭 What This Means for Developers & Businesses If you're building apps or AI products: Test Gemini 3’s API — costs and latency are extremely competitive. Explore the multimodal features for video, audio, and vision-based tools. Consider the ecosystem if you’re planning long-term AI infrastructure. This is more than a model upgrade. 🔚 Conclusion OpenAI is still the king. Google now has the momentum, the ecosystem, and arguably the superior model. As we move further into 2025, the real question becomes: Can OpenAI keep up? 💡 For more AI deep dives, visit: 👉 https://www.ailontech.com/  ( 7 min )

In today’s digital-first world, businesses rely on fast, secure, and scalable infrastructure to deliver seamless experiences to their customers. Tenbyte is emerging as one of the most trusted cloud technology brands, offering powerful solutions designed to meet the modern demands of performance, resilience, and flexibility. From startups building their first applications to enterprises managing mission-critical workloads, Tenbyte is redefining what a next-generation cloud platform looks like.https://www.tenbyte.io/ A Cloud Built for Performance At the core of Tenbyte’s value proposition is high-performance cloud computing. With optimized virtual machines, cutting-edge hardware, and intelligent resource allocation, Tenbyte ensures applications run smoothly with minimal latency. Whether you'…  ( 7 min )

The Vibe Check: Inside Silicon Valley's High-Stakes War Over the Soul of Software Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan recently issued a public prophecy: established SaaS companies, even giants like Zoho, will "perish." The weapon he believes will fell them is not a new business model or a disruptive app, but an amorphous concept he champions called "vibe coding." Across the digital battlefield, Zoho's Sridhar Vembu fired back, dismissing the idea as an "oversimplification" of real engineering and betting his multi-billion dollar company that methodical, human-led development will "outshine the vibe coding companies." This is not a theoretical debate. It is the opening salvo in a conflict over the future of software development itself. Fueled by massive advancements in AI and solidified by strateg…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Revealing the northern lights: Amazon Aurora security deep dive (DAT456) In this video, Eric Brandwine and Andy from AWS explain how Aurora protects against database vulnerabilities through defense-in-depth architecture. They detail how Aurora separates compute and storage layers, treating single-tenant head nodes as potentially compromised while protecting multi-tenant storage and control planes. When researchers discovered a Postgres zero-day exploit using PL/Perl and PL/Rust, Aurora's layered defenses—including SELinux, Chronicle telemetry, and VPC flow logs—detected and contained the attack without prior knowledge of the vulnerability. The presentation emphasizes that Aurora doesn't treat database engines as securit…  ( 31 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - DraftKings: Scaling to 1M operations/min on Aurora during Super Bowl (DAT320) In this video, Joel Miller, Staff Software Architect at DraftKings, explains how they built their Financial Ledger on Amazon Aurora MySQL to handle a million operations per minute. He details the four major scale challenges during NFL Sundays: deposit spikes, debit traffic, in-game read traffic from balance checks, and post-game payout surges (30x increase). The solution involves sharding Aurora MySQL clusters with consistent hashing, separating reads to replicas with under 15ms latency, and optimizing stored procedures using out parameters instead of selects. Key benefits include cost reduction, faster CDC replication to warehouses, and autom…  ( 15 min )

The Paradox: You're Climbing the Wrong Ladder You're spending hundreds of hours learning React, Node, and SQL. You're grinding LeetCode. You’re building a portfolio based on a full-stack roadmap you found online. And you might be building a career on a sinking ship. The brutal truth is that the traditional full-stack development path—the one that promises security if you just learn one more framework—is becoming a trap. It optimizes for becoming a better code-writer in a world where code is becoming increasingly commoditized by AI. You're working harder, not smarter. The Analysis: The Game Has Changed For the last decade, the game was simple: master a popular stack (MERN, LAMP, etc.), demonstrate proficiency, and get a job. Your value was tied to your ability to translate product requireme…  ( 10 min )

In today's fast-paced digital world, having access to reliable and innovative online tools is essential for developers, testers, and tech enthusiasts. One platform that stands out in this space is Qtktest.com. This website serves as a versatile hub focused on AI-powered applications, testing utilities, and practical online tools designed to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. Website Overview and Mission Qtktest.com positions itself as a resource-rich website dedicated to providing users with a suite of free, web-based tools. Its mission appears to be centered on democratizing access to specialized software, particularly in the realms of AI interaction, code analysis, data processing, and web testing. The site emphasizes ease of use, requiring no installations or complex setup…  ( 7 min )

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on Oolit, an offline AI feature built for the CosmoTalker ecosystem. What started as a simple function to deliver space-related answers without internet connectivity has now reached an exciting milestone. 🌍 1. Oolit Featured Internationally Oolit was recently highlighted in a technical article by KiteMetric, a Vietnam-based software development company: 🔗 Article: https://kitemetric.com/blogs/introducing-oolit-your-offline-ai-chatbot-for-cosmotalker This recognition comes shortly after my other open-source project, ZentoraOS, was featured by teams in Spain and India. 🤖 2. Oolit Is Now Evolving into a Machine Learning Model Oolit has grown beyond a standard function — it’s now being developed into its own Machine Learning model, with a long-term goal of becoming a lightweight, open-source LLM. 🔗 Repo: https://github.com/bhuvanesh-m-dev/oolit The idea is to keep Oolit fast, offline, and developer-friendly, while steadily improving its intelligence through incremental model updates. I’m excited to continue building and exploring what’s possible with open-source AI, minimal models, and offline-first tools. More updates coming soon! 🚀  ( 6 min )

A Tribute to The Hacker's Choice Legacy We want to express our deepest gratitude to The Hacker's Choice (THC) - one of the oldest and most respected hacker groups in the infosec community. Since 1995, THC has been pioneering security research, developing legendary tools, and sharing knowledge with the community. Their latest contribution, ip.thc.org, is a game-changer for reconnaissance operations. This service provides: 🌐 Reverse DNS lookups across the entire internet 🔎 Subdomain enumeration from massive datasets 🔗 CNAME tracking for infrastructure mapping 📦 Monthly bulk dumps with ~4.75 billion records What makes it truly remarkable? It's completely free and open. No "$199/month OSINT-as-a-Service" nonsense. This is how OSINT tools should look in 2025. THC Scalpel is our contribu…  ( 10 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections Signing up for the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course offered by Google and Kaggle in November 2025 felt like a natural extension of my ongoing exploration into AI systems. Needless to say, I had to rope in my husband to join me for midnight study sessions - he has also been experimenting with AI agents for customer support, as Head of IT Ops and Transformation Lead in his company. As a business analyst in a company that is scaling up, I've long been immersed in designing infrastructures that push the boundaries of reasoning and autonomy. This course arrived at a perfect juncture in my career, where I was grappling with how to scale experimental prototypes into reliable, enterprise-grade solutions. My husb…  ( 10 min )

Waiting for data to load? Don’t let users stare at a blank screen. Use a slick loading animation instead — and do it fast with the CSS Loader Generator on DevUtilX. One click, a few tweaks, and you get a clean HTML + CSS loader ready to plug into your site. The CSS Loader Generator helps you preview, customize and export ready-to-use loading animations made purely with CSS (no JS, no heavy libs). You get to pick from tons of loader styles — spinners, dots, bars, pulses, waves, rings, and much more — then customize color, size, and speed. Once you’re happy, copy the generated HTML + CSS and drop it into your project. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} Instant results — no setup, no build steps: copy → paste → loader. Customizable & theme-ready — adjust loader color/size/speed so it fi…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Code completion to agents: The evolution of development (DVT405) In this video, Giovanni Zappella and Laurent Callot from Amazon Q Developer trace the evolution of coding agents from basic code completion to autonomous systems. They detail their journey from RAG-based solutions achieving low performance to sophisticated architectures like Taxy Code Agent (38% on SWE-bench verified) and Logos agent (51%) with sandbox execution. The presentation culminates with Huang, a supervisor-sub-agent architecture for complex tasks. Key lessons emphasize optimizing for specific use cases, creating relevant metrics (introducing PolyBench benchmark), building reliable systems using Stren Agent SDK and Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, and ma…  ( 25 min )

Tokenization has been seen by central banks for years as an experiment in the far future, an interesting idea developing in the "crypto world," but not a real concern in regulated finance. That assumption is no longer true. Things like government bonds, money market funds, treasuries, private credit, commercial paper, and even institutional settlement flows are becoming more and more tokenized very quickly. What began as an interesting piece of technology is quickly becoming an important part of how global markets work. It's still a common mistake for central banks to see tokenization as a threat, a separate system that is meant to make it harder to control money or separate policy channels. However, the truth is different; growing tokenized markets are not the real danger for central ban…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Accelerate development with Kiro's new agentic AI capabilities (DVT228) In this video, Kiro Powers is introduced as a new feature that bundles MCP (Model Context Protocol) and steering instructions to give AI agents specialized capabilities without overwhelming them with context. The presentation demonstrates how Powers work through live demos using Figma, Postman, and Supabase integrations. Harry Mauer from Postman shows how their Power enables automatic API collection creation and mock server setup directly in the IDE. Tyler Schuckert from Supabase demonstrates building a complete personal banking app with proper database schema, security checks, TypeScript type generation, and authentication. Powers can be installed …  ( 31 min )

Descubre cómo desacoplar WordPress para usarlo solo como backend y construir un frontend ultrarrápido con Next.js o Astro. Moderniza tu web hoy. WordPress impulsa más del 40% de la web. Es el rey de los gestores de contenido (CMS) por una razón: su interfaz es amigable y su ecosistema es infinito. Sin embargo, en un mundo donde la velocidad de carga y la experiencia de usuario (UX) lo son todo, la arquitectura tradicional de WordPress (monolítica) a veces se queda corta frente a las tecnologías modernas de JavaScript. Aquí es donde entra el concepto de WordPress Headless. Imagina tener la potencia y facilidad de edición de WordPress, pero con la velocidad de un Ferrari en la parte visual. En este artículo, exploraremos cómo utilizar WordPress solo como backend (API) y construir el frontend…  ( 10 min )

What We've Already Built This isn't a whitepaper project. This is working code deployed on 3 blockchains: Arbitrum Sepolia (Primary Security Layer) 14 Contracts 0x59396D58Fa856025bD5249E342729d5550Be151C | 0x2971c0c3139F89808F87b2445e53E5Fb83b6A002 | 0xf111D291afdf8F0315306F3f652d66c5b061F4e3 | 0xAE408eC592f0f865bA0012C480E8867e12B4F32D | 0xc0B9C6cfb6e39432977693d8f2EBd4F2B5f73824 | 0xaDDAC5670941416063551c996e169b0fa569B8e1 | 0x066A39Af76b625c1074aE96ce9A111532950Fc41 | 0xAe9bd988011583D87d6bbc206C19e4a9Bda04830 | 0xf6b9AB802b323f8Be35ca1C733e155D4BdcDb61b | 0xC6F4f855fc690CB52159eE3B13C9d9Fb8D403E59 | 0xE6FeBd695e4b5681DCF274fDB47d786523796C04 | 0x4F777c8c7D3Ea270c7c6D9Db8250ceBe1648A058 | 0x4023B7307BF9e1098e0c34F7E8653a435b20e635 | 0x4567853BE0d5780099E3542Df2e00C5B633E0161 | Solana …  ( 11 min )

Introduction Financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, investment firms, and microfinance organizations depend heavily on data to make smart decisions. Even with the rise of advanced tools like Power BI, SQL, and Python, Microsoft Excel remains the most widely used tool in the financial industry, with studies showing that over 80% of financial professionals use Excel daily for key tasks. This blog explores how Excel impacts decision-making in financial institutions, why it is still relevant today, and what its limitations are. Why Excel Is Still the Backbone of Finance Even in 2025, Excel remains dominant because it is easy to use, flexible, inexpensive, and familiar to almost every financial professional. Surveys show that over 70% of banks still rely on Excel for bud…  ( 8 min )

How I Connected AI Agents with Manufacturing Supply Chain Leonhard Satria Suharjo ・ Dec 6 #googleaichallenge #ai #python #kaggle  ( 6 min )

From a beginner’s perspective, the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive was more than a learning program — it was a complete mindset shift. Over the five days, I learned how agents think, plan, and execute tasks. One of the most challenging parts for me was building and connecting workflows. This course didn’t just teach me tools — These 5 days proved one thing clearly: The 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course completely changed the way I understand AI. This course showed me how small ideas can turn into powerful AI workflows. I’m grateful for this experience.  ( 6 min )

Building SuplaiCerdas: From Google-Kaggle’s AI Agents Course to Real-World Supply Chain Automation *Project view on Github @leonhardsuharjo Weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the AI Agents 5-day Intensive Course held by Kaggle and Google. The course consisted of daily notebook exercises, video podcasts, and livestreams that systematically introduced me to the fundamentals of AI agents — from basic concepts to advanced topics like agent tools, multi-agent architectures, and quality evaluation. This article serves as a part of my capstone project submission: SuplaiCerdas, a prototype AI agent application designed to automate material cost and risk assessment for manufacturing projects. Further details can be found at my github profile @leonhardsuharjo An enterprise AI ag…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Architecting resilient multicloud operations, feat. Monzo Bank (HMC201) In this video, AWS Principal Technologists Clark Richey and Bruno Emer, along with Monzo Bank's Andrew Lawson, discuss multi-cloud resilience strategies. They introduce the SEEMS framework (Single points of failure, Excessive load, Excessive latency, Misconfiguration/bugs, Shared fate) for analyzing failure modes. The speakers emphasize that multi-cloud doesn't inherently increase resilience due to added complexity, but can be valuable for specific scenarios like disaster recovery when data sovereignty requirements exist. Andrew presents Monzo's "Stand-in" platform—a simplified banking system running on Google Cloud as a lifeboat strategy while thei…  ( 38 min )

Durante los últimos años trabajando como arquitecto backend, he visto equipos completos bloqueados por APIs mal diseñadas. El problema nunca es la complejidad técnica del negocio, sino decisiones estructurales que tomamos al inicio y que terminan convirtiéndose en deuda técnica imposible de pagar. Una API bien diseñada no es aquella que funciona hoy, es aquella que otro desarrollador puede extender mañana sin necesidad de llamarte a las 3 AM. En proyectos con multiples API o microservicios, he aplicado un conjunto de principios que transforman APIs caóticas en sistemas predecibles. No se trata de arquitecturas complejas ni patrones rebuscados. Se trata de decisiones pequeñas y consistentes que facilitan el mantenimiento, reducen bugs en producción y permiten que el equipo escale sin inconv…  ( 17 min )

Created in purpose of testing DEV API directly importing to my portfolio website.  ( 5 min )

This year at AWS re:Invent 2025, I didn't fly out to Las Vegas. Instead, I followed along remotely—streaming the keynotes live and keeping a close eye on the AWS Blog announcements. Watching Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduce Policy controls, Episodic Memory, and Gateway integrations, I found myself both excited and curious. But after absorbing all these impressive announcements, a practical question kept coming back to me: How do I actually start building autonomous security systems without committing to expensive managed services from day one? This post documents my journey building a proof-of-concept Autonomous Threat Containment Agent using native AWS services. I'll share what worked, what broke, and how the new AgentCore capabilities could elevate this architecture to production-grade…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Streamlining Telecom Cybersecurity Operations with AWS Generative AI (IND206) In this video, Anwar Ali and Ray from AWS demonstrate how Generative AI streamlines telecom cybersecurity operations. They address challenges of analyzing verbose, high-volume security logs across multiple sources in proprietary formats. The solution uses Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Runtime with Claude 3.7 Sonnet to create a Network Trace Expert Assistant that diagnoses blocked user requests in minutes instead of hours. The demo shows the agent querying Zscaler, Checkpoint, and Illumio logs to troubleshoot a security incident, identifying where traffic was blocked across multiple network firewalls. They recommend using Amazon Security Lake with …  ( 18 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 -From Print to AI: The Economist's Digital Evolution w/ AWS Architecture (IND399) In this video, Ahmed Raafat and Professor Bogdan from The Economist discuss how they successfully moved generative AI from POC to production. They address the common challenge that 80% of generative AI POCs fail to reach production due to people, process, and technology issues. The session covers The Economist's AI strategy, including four main use cases: recommendations, translation, summarization, and the EIU Q&A Copilot. Bogdan demonstrates how they built workflows using Amazon Bedrock and agents, reducing deployment time from six months to just days. The presentation includes a live demo of their RAG mechanism and agent-based system for …  ( 17 min )

I Compared Inventive to Other Multi-Purpose Themes (So You Don’t Have To) I went into my last client build thinking, “Cool, it’s just another business site.” Two hours later I was knee-deep in theme options, arguing with myself like a tired product manager: Do I go lightweight and modular? Do I go full ‘all-in-one’? Do I pick something that looks amazing today but becomes a maintenance hobby tomorrow? That’s how I ended up testing Inventive – Multi-Purpose Business WordPress Theme against a handful of the usual suspects people recommend for business and agency sites. This post is a comparison, not a fan-club speech. I’m writing it from the perspective of “I have to ship a site that looks good, loads fast enough, doesn’t break when the client updates plugins, and won’t make me regret my l…  ( 11 min )

I built a tiny tool collection that speeds up my dev workflow  ( 6 min )

As developers, we're obsessed with building clean, efficient systems. We despise data silos, brittle integrations, and processes held together by manual effort and duct tape. So why do we tolerate it in the part of the business that literally keeps the lights on: Sales and Marketing? The infamous gap between Sales and Marketing isn't just a culture problem; it's a systems architecture problem. It’s about broken data flows, mismatched APIs, and a lack of a single source of truth. It's a problem that engineers are uniquely qualified to solve. Let's ditch the buzzwords and architect a solution. Welcome to 'Smarketing' for developers. Before you write a single line of automation, you need a solid foundation. In the world of Go-To-Market (GTM) teams, the CRM (like Salesforce or HubSpot) is your…  ( 9 min )

The next time your phone translates a foreign menu, recognises your face, or suggests a clever photo edit, pause for a moment. That artificial intelligence isn't happening in some distant Google data centre or Amazon server farm. It's happening right there in your pocket, on a chip smaller than a postage stamp, processing your most intimate data without sharing it with anyone—ever. This represents the most significant shift in digital privacy since encryption went mainstream—and most people haven't got a clue it's happening. Welcome to the era of edge AI, where artificial intelligence happens not in distant data centres, but on the devices you carry and the gadgets scattered around your home. It's a transformation that promises to address one of the most pressing anxieties of our hyperconn…  ( 25 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Maximizing uptime: Itaú’s mission-critical mainframe migration to AWS (IND3304) In this video, Eduardo, Wilson, and Edinei from Itaú Unibanco share their journey modernizing a 50-year-old mainframe checking account platform to AWS cloud, targeting four nines availability. They detail implementing a cell-based architecture using AWS CamaZero framework for fault isolation, choosing DynamoDB for ACID transactions achieving 1,200 TPS with 79ms latency, and solving hot partition issues through smart schema design. The presentation covers their router layer with full table mapping, active-standby replica setup with quorum-based replication, and dark launch strategy for safe migration. Key insights include how IAM policy optim…  ( 25 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From UX to AX: MCP Servers for AI Shopping Agents (IND386) In this video, AWS Solutions Architects Aditya Pendyala and Martin Sakowski discuss the shift from user experience to agent experience in e-commerce. They highlight that 51% of Gen Z customers start product searches on AI platforms, with Gartner predicting 25-30% of e-commerce will flow through agents by 2030. The speakers explain Model Context Protocol (MCP) and introduce Amazon Bedrock Agent Gateway, which converts existing APIs into MCP-compatible tools without rebuilding infrastructure. They emphasize three best practices: designing agent-first APIs with structured data, progressive disclosure by starting with high-impact APIs, and maintaining multi-protocol…  ( 17 min )

Why GSAP? — Because Web Should Move Have you ever visited a site where as you scroll, elements fade in just at the right moment, backgrounds move with depth, buttons “pop” subtly when hovered, or images animate smoothly instead of just jumping into place? That’s the kind of fluid, immersive experience that feels “premium.” That magic often comes from GSAP — the GreenSock Animation Platform. It’s a JavaScript animation library trusted by thousands of developers and used on many production websites. What makes GSAP stand out: In short: if you want your UI to feel alive, GSAP is 💚 the go-to. Getting Started with GSAP — The Essentials 1. Include GSAP You have a few options: use a CDN or install via npm/yarn if you’re using a build system. For a quick start with plain HTML, you can simply do: …  ( 9 min )

When your scraper easily bypasses technical barriers with the "invisibility cloak" of residential proxies, a more fundamental question arises: Is this ethical and legal? Residential proxies are a neutral technology in themselves, but their powerful circumvention capabilities make them a double-edged sword. Irresponsible use can harm websites, violate user privacy, undermine market fairness, and ultimately drag the entire industry into harsher legal regulation. This article aims to provide practitioners with a responsible practice framework, exploring how to adhere to ethical bottom lines and legal compliance while leveraging the powerful features of residential proxies. Before discussing "how to do it right," it is essential to clarify "what is wrong." The following are the core risks that…  ( 10 min )

This blog post describes an approach for experimenting with programming languages and frameworks by using minimal starter projects that cannot do much more than outputting "Hello, World!". Those projects can then be used to experiment with the respective technology. The Angular framework is used as an example, but the idea for this approach is to be applicable to other technologies as well. The Bash snippets below have been tested on a basic Ubuntu Droplet from the DigitalOcean cloud service provider. Besides the Linux operating system, the Droplet has the Version Control System git preinstalled. Since the example uses Angular, additionally Node.js and the Angular CLI need to be installed: # Install Node.js as described here: https://nodejs.org/en/download curl -o- https://raw.githubuserco…  ( 7 min )

Why OrKa 0.9.10 Wraps GenAI Inside Deterministic Systems I will start bluntly. I like generative AI. I use it every day. I build around it. But I do not trust it to own the outcome of a system. For me, GenAI is a fantastic tool for two things: Generating content Analyzing context That is already huge. But it is still just one tool in a bigger machine. What worries me is how often I see people trying to bend the model into being the whole product. "Just send a giant prompt, get an answer, ship it." It works for demos. It does not scale to real systems that need reliability, reproducibility, or any kind of serious accountability. This article is about that gap. Why LLMs should be treated as probabilistic sensors, not entire applications Why their outputs must be wrapped into real objec…  ( 13 min )

.NET (dotnet) is a vast ecosystem of programming languages, tooling and debugging tools. It is a framework where other languages are built on top of like C#, VB.NET etc. But, have you wondered. What dotnet language will face end of support the first? That is an interesting question, and the answer according to Aspxone is VB.NET (Visual Basic). If this upsets you, we apologize but it is kind of the truth. Here is the 3 reasons why: Visual Basic receives no significant features: VB.NET is still being updated with security patches to keep it stable for enterprises still using it but it no longer receives innovative features. It is mainly focusing on stability to maintain existing codebases, not new features or innovation. Microsoft is focusing on C#: .NET was created by Microsoft. Their main focus is C# because it is more feature rich and has more frequent updates. It can code much more applications than VB.NET can. C# gets the support for newer tooling first. Limited community: VB.NET still has a community but it is way smaller and less active than something like C#. This means less tooling and less help. Even though VB.NET is facing these problems, it is still used in the .NET framework for legacy code, windows applications and enterprise-ready applications. But it is still recommended to use newer .NET core tooling like C# instead of VB.NET.  ( 6 min )

Content moderation is one of the most critical yet challenging aspects of building AI applications. As developers, we're tasked with creating systems that can understand context, detect harmful content, and make nuanced decisions—all while maintaining a positive user experience. Today, I want to share insights from building a production-grade NSFW detection system that goes beyond simple keyword blocking. When I first started working on content moderation, I thought a simple blocklist would suffice. Flag a few explicit words, block them, and call it a day. Reality quickly proved me wrong. Users are creative. They use character substitutions ("s3x"), deliberate spacing ("p o r n"), and roleplay scenarios to bypass filters. Meanwhile, legitimate medical and educational content was getting in…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AWS detection and response innovations that drive security outcomes (SEC323) In this video, Marshall Jones and Ryan Holland present AWS detection and response innovations, focusing on three core services: Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection with Extended Threat Detection capabilities and malware protection for AWS Backup, Amazon Inspector for continuous vulnerability scanning across EC2, ECR, Lambda, and code repositories with AI-generated remediation patches, and AWS Security Hub with newly GA-launched exposure-based findings that correlate threats, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations into unified risk assessments. They demonstrate Attack Path visualization, Asset Inventory features, simplified per-resource pricin…  ( 38 min )

Hey Python devs! 👋 I’m excited to share PyUIkit 1.0.0, a modern, web-style GUI framework for Python built on top of CustomTkinter. It brings Div-based layouts, reusable components, and an easy way to create interactive desktop apps without messy layout code. Web-like Div layout system for nesting components Interactive components: Text, Button, Input, Slider, and more Component IDs for dynamic updates Modern styling with dark/light themes Minimal boilerplate, easy to pick up This app demonstrates using Slider components to mix colors in real-time and display the hex value dynamically. pip install pyuikit To get started see the GitHub Repository | PyPI Page or the Quickstart guide I’m open to PRs, feedback, and feature requests! Issues can be reported on GitHub’s issue tab. Would love to hear what you think! 🙂  ( 6 min )

How to eliminate inconsistent errors, simplify validation, and keep backend & frontend perfectly in sync Introduction If your frontend error-handling is overloaded with conditional logic… if (error.response?.data?.message) { ... } else if (typeof error === "string") { ... } else if (error.status === 401) { ... } …it’s not your fault - it’s your backend being inconsistent. ASP.NET Minimal API Next.js a Response Envelope a Rich Error Object pattern fully synced C# -> TypeScript enums The Problem: Inconsistent API Responses Most projects begin with “quick” error returns: return BadRequest("Email invalid"); throw new Exception("Something went wrong"); return Unauthorized();` But later you realize your API responds with: `{ "error": "UserNotFound" } { "message": "Inval…  ( 10 min )

** COMMON MANUAL TESTING TECHNIQUES**: (a) Boundary value analysis BVA (B) Equivalence partitioning (c) Decision table testing ** BOUNDARY VALUE ANALYSIS**: 1. Lower boundary, 2. Upper boundary, 3. Just below the lower boundary, 4. Just below the upper boundary. (FOR EXAMPLE 1): ( FOR EXAMPLE 2): VALUE RESULT 499 Fail 500 Pass 501 Pass 9999 Pass 10,000 Pass 10,001 Fail. ( FOR EXAMPLE 3) : VALUE RESULT 5 Fail 6 Pass 7 Pass 11 Pass 12 Pass 13 Fail . These are the ex…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Code to Policies: Accelerate Development w/ IAM Policy Autopilot (SEC351) In this video, AWS Principal Product Manager Kevin Luo and Principal Engineer Luke Kennedy introduce IAM Policy Autopilot, a newly launched open-source CLI tool that uses static code analysis to generate IAM policies deterministically from application code. They demonstrate building a multi-tenant S3 bucket creation microservice, comparing traditional approaches like AdministratorAccess, AWS managed policies, and handcrafted policies with their limitations. The tool analyzes code locally, maps SDK operations to IAM actions using AWS's published service reference data, and generates policies with 97% fewer permissions than typical developer po…  ( 27 min )

For years, telecom providers have attempted to fix customer experience using generic chatbots. The logic was simple: automate responses, reduce call-center load, and offer 24×7 support. But the reality? They failed not because AI is ineffective — but because telecom is one of the most complex, rule-heavy, exception-driven industries on the planet. Generic “FAQ bots” simply don’t understand the depth of telco operations. Today, as telecom operators digitize networks, migrate to eSIM, expand 5G/FTTH, and merge billing stacks, a new approach is emerging: Conscious Intelligence — AI that thinks, reasons, understands telecom logic, and executes actions autonomously. This is the shift powering next-gen platforms like TelcoEdge Inc, which builds domain-trained intelligent operators for telecom. T…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Simplify Data Lake Access with IAM Identity Center and trusted identity... In this video, Laura Reith, a Solutions Architect from the Identity Solutions team, explains how IAM Identity Center and trusted identity propagation simplify data lake access control in AWS. She addresses the challenge of managing multiple IAM roles and policies for different user access patterns. Trusted identity propagation enables administrators to assign permissions based on human identities rather than roles, creating a unified access control model across AWS services like QuickSight, Athena, Redshift, and Lake Formation. The solution maintains service roles with minimal permissions while enhancing them with user identity context, allowing …  ( 13 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Easy cross-cloud authN : AWS outbound identity federation in action (SEC233) In this video, Ram Maharajapuram and Vaishnavi Merugu introduce AWS's new feature that eliminates long-term credentials by enabling workloads to connect to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). A live demo shows an EC2 instance federating to Azure using the GetWebIdentityToken API without managing passwords or access keys. The token includes standard OIDC claims and custom AWS claims like account ID, principal tags, and compute context. The feature uses account-specific issuer URLs for tenant isolation and supports ES384 and RS256 signing algorithms. Three new condition keys control access: IdentityTokenAudience, DurationSeconds, and …  ( 15 min )

This might be the end of the blogposts I made based on the videos of Andrej, so shout out to him the last time. Respect! A word of warning: I'm currently working on projects now so things got messy (going around and fixing bugs everyday). It's hard to systematically note things down, and also sometimes I just want to talk really briefly about the topic. So maybe you won't find like a detailed explanation in my blogposts anymore, some notions will be under-explained or even wrongly explained. I'm just sharing my thoughts and some of the insights that I came up with, so don't take it serious on me okay :). Now we know that, in the Bigram model, the model only uses just the previous token to predict the next, which really limits the context and other important things. In other words, the cont…  ( 15 min )

Welcome to Day 56 of the #80DaysOfChallenges journey! This intermediate challenge delivers the absolute best way to compute the nth Fibonacci number in Python: a linear-time iterative loop with constant space, beating the pants off naive recursion that explodes for n > 35. It uses just two variables to track the sequence, making it lightning-fast and memory-efficient even for huge n (like n=10,000). This is the exact method used in real-world applications, competitive programming, and interviews when they ask "but can you do it without recursion or memoization?" Example: F₀ = 0, F₁ = 1, F₂ = 1, F₃ = 2, F₄ = 3, F₅ = 5, ... If you're tired of recursion timeouts or bloated memoization tables, this "Python fast Fibonacci" solution is clean, optimal, and ready for production. This challenge sho…  ( 13 min )

👤 Somalpreet Singh 📍 Location: Jalandhar, Punjab, India https://www.linkedin.com/in/somalpreet-singh-163a8b244/ About Me As a fresh and passionate software engineer, I combine creativity, analytical thinking, and a hunger for learning to deliver impactful solutions. My focus lies at the intersection of AI, cloud computing, and web development, where I build scalable, efficient, and user-friendly systems. Every project I tackle is an opportunity to innovate, learn, and make a real-world impact. Education B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering Skills Programming: Python, C, SQL, JavaScript Web & Frontend: HTML, CSS, React.js, Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs) Data & Analytics: Data Structures & Algorithms, Data Analytics, Pandas, MySQL, Microsoft Power BI Cloud & Tools: AWS,…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Reinventing software development with AI agents (INV205) In this video, Deepak Singh introduces Kiro, AWS's AI-powered development tool that transforms software development through spec-driven development and autonomous agents. The session demonstrates how developers achieve 5-10x productivity gains by fundamentally changing their workflow rather than just using AI as a tool. Key features include Kiro CLI for terminal-based development, property-based testing that generates hundreds of test cases automatically, and Kiro Powers that integrate with tools like Datadog, Figma, and Stripe. A remarkable case study shows how an AWS Bedrock team of 6 developers completed an 18-month project in 76 days using Kiro CLI. The video …  ( 42 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Infrastructure for the impossible: Turning public sector barriers into... In this video, AWS Vice President Dave Levy presents public sector innovations including the $50 billion investment in AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government, AWS European Sovereign Cloud with €7.8 billion investment, and AI Factories for global deployment. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Greg Herweg discusses their fusion ignition achievement and cloud transformation journey. The U.S. Navy's multi-modal agentic AI solution reduced submarine maintenance processing from weeks to hours at Impact Level 5 classification. Capita CEO Adolfo Hernandez demonstrates their Process to Agent framework achieving 40% reduction in hand…  ( 33 min )

Music discovery has changed more in the last decade than in the previous fifty years. While traditional FM still has its charm and streaming apps dominate the charts, a surprising player is reshaping how people find new artists: online radio. Platforms built around global access, smart curation and ad-free listening are giving listeners a fresh way to explore music. This shift is especially clear when you look at how Online Radio FM platforms are transforming the entire discovery experience. Most people rely on big streaming apps for recommendations, but the constant algorithm-driven playlists often end up sounding repetitive. Online radio offers a refreshing break. It blends human-curated stations, regional channels and community-driven music programming. Instead of relying on automated p…  ( 8 min )

Small travel agencies in India have a problem: they can't afford custom booking websites (costs ₹5-10 lakhs), but using platforms like MakeMyTrip B2B means paying 25-30% commission on every booking. The Big Technical Challenges Every Agency Needs Their Own Website Flight APIs Are a Nightmare Indian Payments Are Different WhatsApp > Email in India Making It Fast Cached flight search results (prices don't change every second anyway) Result: Page loads in under 100ms. Search results appear in 2 seconds instead of 10. Tech Stack Choices Current Status 50+ agencies using the platform What I'm Still Figuring Out Refund handling - When a booking needs refund, each API has different processes Biggest Lessons Cache Everything 90% of my performance improvements came from caching. Don't hit databases or APIs unless you absolutely have to. Know Your Market I spent weeks on email notifications. Nobody used them. WhatsApp took 2 days to integrate and became the #1 requested feature. Start Simple I over-engineered the multi-tenant architecture initially. Could have started with a much simpler version. One Small Feature Can Sell Everything The WhatsApp booking confirmation is technically trivial but it's what most agencies mention when they sign up. B2B SaaS in India is Different Payment preferences are different (UPI, Paytm matter more than credit cards) The Business Model 25-30% commission per booking to aggregators Our Model: ₹5,000-10,000/month flat fee The Math: What's Next Hotel booking module (currently only flights) Open for Feedback Travel tech I'd love to hear your thoughts! Check it out: rayds.org  ( 8 min )

The blockchain and crypto fundraising ecosystem has evolved dramatically over the past decade. While the initial coin offering (ICO) boom of 2017–2018 was fueled by hype and speculation, the market in 2026 is defined by performance, compliance, utility, and long-term value. Today, investors are smarter, regulations are clearer, and competition is more intense than ever. This shift has forced startups to rethink how they approach ICO Marketing and which ICO Marketing Services truly deliver the highest return on investment (ROI). In 2026, success is no longer about how loud your campaign is—it’s about how precisely it targets, engages, and converts real users and long-term investors. This article breaks down the most profitable marketing strategies, platforms, and services driving the highes…  ( 11 min )

When you think of Rajasthan, you think of its rich culture, vibrant colors, and unforgettable cuisine. At Govindam Retreat, we bring you a soul-satisfying Rajasthani Thali that captures the true spirit of the desert land, plated with love and royal tradition. 🍴 What’s in Our Rajasthani Thali? 🌟 Whether you are a food lover, a traveler, or just someone craving traditional comfort food, our Rajasthani Thali promises a royal treat for your taste buds. 📍 Come, feast like a king or queen at Govindam Retreat, Jaipur. Experience the warmth of Rajasthan on every plate. 👉 Book your Royal Thali Experience now: https://govindamretreat.in/  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Behind the curtain: How Amazon’s AI innovations are powered by AWS (INV211) In this video, Amazon leaders demonstrate how AWS powers innovation across Amazon.com, Zoox, and Prime Video. Dave Treadwell reveals Amazon Stores deployed over 21,000 AI agents, achieving $2 billion in cost savings and 4.5x developer velocity increase through AI-native development with Kiro and Spec Studio. Amazon Rufus, the generative AI shopping assistant, scaled to 80,000 Trainium and Inferentia chips during Prime Day, processing 3 million tokens per minute with customers 60% more likely to complete purchases. Zoox CTO Jesse Levinson explains how their autonomous robotaxis run trillions of calculations using tens of thousands of GPUs on AWS,…  ( 36 min )

Laptop Power Light On But Won't Boot? 7 Fixes That Work (2025) You press the power button and... nothing. Your laptop won't turn on. Maybe the charging light is on, maybe it's blinking, or maybe there's complete darkness. Before you panic, take a breath — most laptop power issues can be fixed at home. Scenario 1: Charging light ON, laptop won't start Power is reaching the laptop Problem is likely internal (RAM, motherboard, or boot issue) Scenario 2: Charging light OFF, laptop completely dead No power reaching the laptop Problem is with charger, battery, or power circuit Scenario 3: Lights blink then turn off Laptop attempts to start but fails Often a hardware protection mechanism Scenario 4: Fans spin briefly, then nothing POST (Power-On Self-Test) is failing Likely RAM or motherboard issue Unplug the power adapter completely Remove the battery if possible (skip if internal) Press and hold the power button for 30 seconds Wait 2 minutes with everything unplugged Reconnect the power adapter Press the power button once and wait Look for cuts, kinks, or burn marks on the cable Test with another laptop if possible Try a different outlet Check the charging port for damage For Windows laptops: Unplug power and remove the main battery Remove the bottom panel Locate the CMOS battery (small coin-shaped) Remove it and wait 5 minutes Reinsert and reassemble For Mac - SMC Reset: Power off and unplug everything Open the bottom panel Release RAM clips gently Remove and clean the gold contacts Reinsert firmly until clips snap back Let laptop cool for 30 minutes Clean all vents with compressed air Place on hard, flat surface Windows: Hold F8 or Shift + F8 while powering on Mac: Hold Shift while powering on If nothing works, the issue may be: Motherboard failure Power circuit damage Hard drive failure Need expert help? A certified technician can diagnose remotely. Remember: 70% of laptop power issues are fixed by the 60-second power drain!  ( 7 min )

I’ll admit it upfront: I didn’t make it to the keynote hall for this one. This keynote isn’t about AI announcements or product hype. The Five Unchanging Pillars of AWS Peter opened with a reminder of the core attributes AWS has optimised around for nearly two decades: Security Availability Elasticity Cost Agility Even in a rapidly evolving AI world, these don’t change — only the techniques to achieve them do. It was a good grounding moment. Before we talk about the future of AI, we need to understand the foundation that makes any of it possible. Nitro — The Engine Behind AWS Compute Peter used the Nitro System as the perfect example of AWS’s deep, multi-year investment strategy. Nitro continues to be: Custom silicon Minimal overhead Isolation by design Virtually no “jitter” And now… litera…  ( 8 min )

可选链操作符 ?. 这个 ?. 的语法叫做 可选链操作符 (Optional Chaining)。 x ??= y 是 JavaScript 中的 逻辑空赋值运算符 (Logical Nullish Assignment)。 等价写法 // 写法 A：使用简写 x ??= y; // 写法 B：原本的逻辑 (等价) if (x === null || x === undefined) { x = y; } performance 是一个专门用于“精确测量时间”的对象。 它提供比 Date.now() 更高精度（微秒级）的计时能力。 主要用于动画、性能监控、测量时间差。 void 操作符的用途是对一个表达式进行求值，然后丢弃其返回值，最终返回 undefined。 例如 void expression; // 效果是：执行 expression，返回 undefined。  ( 6 min )

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(No flexing. No motivational BS. Just the raw reality people actually need.)😁 If you’ve ever made even $1 from coding outside a 9–5… this thread is your mic. 🎤🔥 Silent juniors who think they’re the only impostors are reading every word you write. 👀💭😂 Reply using this exact template (copy → fill → send): 💰 Platforms that paid me: → (Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Arc, Lemon.io, Contra, Twitter/X DMs, cold email, referrals, friend of a friend, etc.) 😶‍🌫️ Imposter syndrome in 2025: → Still hits daily → Only when I raise rates or meet a new client → Sometimes, usually late at night → Rarely now → Never had it (respect 🫡) 🔥 One sentence I wish someone told me when I was terrified to send my first proposal: → “Your real sentence here — keep it raw.” Copy → paste → answer honestly ↓ → (Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Arc, Lemon.io, Contra, Twitter/X DMs, cold email, referrals, friend-of-a-friend, etc.) → Still hits daily → Only when I raise my rates or meet a new client → Sometimes, usually late at night → Rarely these days → Never had it (respect 🫡) → “Your real sentence here — keep it raw.” Real examples (copy the vibe, not the words): Platforms → Fiverr + one repeat client from Reddit Imposter → Daily, especially when they call me “expert” Truth → “I started at $15/hr while following YouTube tutorials with the client on call.” 💰 Platforms → Upwork → Arc → now mostly direct 😶‍🌫️ Imposter → Only before sending $8k+ invoices 🔥 Truth → “Half my career is just being the only one who answers emails on weekends.” No sugarcoating. Just truth.💕 The dev who’s about to give up tonight will read your comment and think: “…wait, even THEY feel like this?”😭 Copy the template. Fill it honestly. And if you don’t want to use the template, that’s totally fine 😂just tell your story in your own words. I’m listening. We’re waiting for your line ↓  ( 7 min )

Previously on Black Forest Shadow… Day 1: Gord recruits Rothütle in Zum Roten Bären to help track Jack the Miner. Day 2: A forged, typewritten letter lures Rothütle — revealing someone wants him out of Freiburg. Day 3: Carl Benz is already gone; Gord avoids Böhler’s omnibus for secrecy, and they exit through Schwabentor. Day 4: Night in Kirchzarten — Gord keeps vigil, sensing unseen threats. Day 5: The valley toward Oberried distorts, fog bending distance and sound. The forest is no longer behaving like nature — and Jack is ahead of them. By late morning, the fog loosens its grip. The valley widens, and the clustered roofs of Oberried come into view — quiet, frost-tipped, almost watchful. Gord halts at the edge of the village and nods toward Rothütle’s pack. “Your bag is rather heavy,”…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Reinvent your career: From developer to cloud leader (DEV101) In this video, Fernando Pena, Head of Cloud Services and AWS Community Builder, shares strategies for reinventing your tech career. He discusses how 94% of tech professionals consider career changes, driven by rapidly evolving technologies like AI and cloud. Drawing from his journey from SAP developer to cloud leadership, he emphasizes building a T-shaped career—maintaining deep expertise while developing broad skills. He addresses common concerns like starting over, salary impacts, and age barriers. The key to successful transitions is building a bridge through certifications, personal branding, and especially community involvement through AWS User Groups, C…  ( 12 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Transforming Healthcare Payor Operations: AWS-TriZetto Success Story (IND210) In this video, AWS and TriZetto present their strategic partnership for transforming healthcare payer operations. Srivaths from AWS, along with Rich and Scott from TriZetto, discuss modernizing core claims adjudication systems through cloud migration. Key topics include the five-year collaboration launched at re:Invent 2024, featuring 17 joint initiatives. Rich shares a success story of migrating a Midwestern Blue plan with 375,000 members to AWS in one year using Facets G6 on EKS, achieving 17 million claims loaded per hour. Scott introduces the TriZetto AI Gateway, a new product built on AWS Bedrock that provides centralized agent management…  ( 16 min )

I tested Gemini 3 against my own “Commodore 64 Constraint.”, after it conquered my Tetris challenge in BASIC, we pushed harder: Snake in 6510 Assembly with a Python-powered AI toolchain using Gemini on Github Copilot. It all starts at the base, one of the first AI-generated assembler games for the Commodore 64? In the current AI landscape, it is easy to be impressed by the sheer volume of working code models produce. We see them generating Python scripts, React components, and complex SQL queries with apparent ease. However, these successes often occur within modern, forgiving development environments that mask fundamental inefficiencies. They offer abundant memory, standard libraries that abstract away complex logic, and garbage collection that forgives sloppy resource management. Real p…  ( 12 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Intelligent vs. Knowledgeable Models through the Lens of Data (AIM358) In this video, Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, distinguishes between intelligent and knowledgeable AI models. While LLMs excel at reasoning and can win Math Olympics gold medals, they fail at simple real-time tasks like purchasing products without access to current web data. Bright Data serves 20,000 customers including major foundational model builders, processing 50 billion web pages daily. Lenchner demonstrates how ChatGPT open source model becomes useful only when paired with Bright Data MCP for real-time information, showing salary data retrieval as an example. He predicts 2026 will merge intelligence and knowledge layers, enabling true automat…  ( 14 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Enhance Contact Center AI With Salesforce and AWS (DAT207) In this video, Assaf Ben-Gur from Salesforce and Marc Rudkowski from Amazon Connect present their integrated contact center solution combining Salesforce channels with Amazon Connect. They address key challenges: disconnected data, fragmented AI implementations, and agent productivity. The demo showcases Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect (SCCAC), featuring unified agent desktops, Agentforce AI agents across multiple channels (WhatsApp, chat, voice), and Amazon Connect's AI agent assist with real-time recommendations from Salesforce knowledge base. They highlight 12 billion AI-optimized interactions, nearly 100 million monthly voice calls, and thousan…  ( 18 min )

📝 Course Journey Summary The Google × Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course was a transformative learning experience that moved the author beyond basic AI concepts. 🌟 Key Takeaways by Day: • Day 1 (Agent Fundamentals): Established that AI agents are autonomous systems that observe, think, act, and learn, introducing concepts like Agent Loops, Environments, and Reasoning Systems. • Day 2 (Tools, Memory & Autonomy): Focused on enhancing agent capabilities, demonstrating how Tools and Memory enable agents to learn from experience and perform complex, multi-step actions. • Day 3 (Multi-Agent Systems - Favorite Day): Explored the powerful concept of multiple agents collaborating as a team (e.g., planner, researcher, coder), opening up many real-world application ideas. • Day 4 (Architectures & Evaluation): Delved into the engineering aspects, covering the ReAct architecture, tool-using agents, planning loops, and essential evaluation pipelines. • Day 5 (Capstone Project): The author built a simple Study Planner Agent that prioritizes tasks, generates personalized plans, and tracks progress, significantly boosting confidence in practical application. 💡 Core Realizations: The main conceptual impact was realizing that Agents \neq Chatbots. The author concluded that Multi-step reasoning, the combination of Memory + Tools, and Multi-agent collaboration are the foundations of true autonomy and the future of AI. 🚀 Future Plans: Inspired by the course, the author is planning to build more complex agent systems, specifically a multi-agent coding assistant, a travel planning agent, and a learning assistant for students.  ( 6 min )

Artificial intelligence has become astonishingly good at tasks. It can summarize text, write code, generate plans, and automate workflows. But a growing number of people want something different. They want AI that helps them think more clearly, understand their own patterns, and make better decisions without being influenced or steered. Most AI systems are not designed for that. They are optimized for efficiency, prediction, and output. Reflective intelligence requires something else. It requires boundaries, pacing, consent based memory, and non directive reasoning. It requires an architecture that protects the human mind rather than optimizing around it. This is where Trinity AGA Architecture comes in. Trinity AGA Architecture is a constitutional governance framework for building reflecti…  ( 8 min )

On November 18, 2025, at 11:20 UTC, a small automated update caused a huge problem. A configuration file became larger than the software could handle, and that tiny mistake ended up taking down around 20% of the internet for more than three hours. Major services like X(Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, League of Legends, and even banking systems went offline. The estimated damage was $5 to $15 billion per hour. It wasn’t caused by hackers. It wasn’t caused by a hardware failure. It was caused by a simple design mistake in how one system handled a large file. A bot-mitigation system (used to block bad traffic) updated its configuration file. This time the file got too big. When the software tried to load it, it crashed. Because many other systems depended on it, they crashed too. The delay in rea…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Maximize Productivity with the Amazon Q Developer CLI Agent (DVT223) In this video, a Pluralsight representative demonstrates maximizing productivity with Amazon Q Developer and the Kiro CLI (formerly Q Developer CLI agent). The session covers three ways to use Q Developer: AWS console, Kiro IDE, and Kiro CLI for terminal users. Live demos show practical applications including retrieving AWS CLI commands, troubleshooting Access Denied errors, reviewing IAM policies for security best practices, invoking Bedrock foundation models with Boto3, generating synthetic data, and creating architecture diagrams using MCP servers. The speaker emphasizes avoiding common mistakes like hallucinations, over-reliance on AI, and data sha…  ( 15 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Documents to Decisions: Unleashing AI-Powered Business Automation (SMB204) In this video, David Mefford from AWS and Priya Iragavarapu, VP of Data Science and AI at AArete, discuss how AArete solved the challenge of extracting data from healthcare provider and vendor contracts using their generative AI solution, DOCZY.AI. AArete evolved from manual processing (100 documents per week) through rules-based engines with AWS Textract (50-60% accuracy) to a generative AI approach achieving 99% accuracy and processing 500,000 documents weekly. Built entirely on AWS using Bedrock with Claude models, the solution processed 2.5 million documents and 442 billion tokens in 22 months, delivering $330 million in client savings t…  ( 15 min )

Last night, my side project CocoIndex hit Trending in the Rust category on GitHub — and my notifications exploded. It turns out a lot of developers are quietly fighting the same problem: keeping AI agents connected to data that changes every minute, not every quarter. This post is the story behind the project, but more importantly, it's about a simple idea: if we want autonomous agents to be useful in the real world, we need to take their memory and data freshness as seriously as we take their models. Most agent demos assume the world stands still while the model thinks. In production, nothing stands still: Issues are closed, tickets move stages, alerts fire and resolve. Product catalogs change, prices update, docs get refactored. Logs, events, and sensor data stream in continuously. If yo…  ( 9 min )

If you use PyTorch, there’s one line of code you probably type out of sheer muscle memory: loss.backward(). When you first learn neural networks, you spend hours deriving backpropagation equations and understanding chain rules. Then you meet PyTorch, type loss.backward(), and it just... works. It feels like magic. All that complex calculus is handled in a single line. But as engineers, "It’s magic" isn’t a satisfying explanation. It’s actually a bit unsettling. What exactly is happening under the hood when we call that function? Today, we’re going to look behind the curtain at Autograd, the engine that makes this magic possible. Before we tear apart the code, let’s quickly recap the standard workflow of training a deep learning model. Training is essentially an iterative process of tweakin…  ( 14 min )

Java's multiplyExact() Method: Your Full Guide to Safe Multiplication (No More Silent Bugs!) Hey there, coders! Let's talk about one of those "oh crap" moments in programming. You're building something awesome—maybe a shopping cart total calculator, a game score multiplier, or a backend process for financial transactions. You write clean code, use the trusty * operator, and everything seems fine... until one day, a user buys 10,000,000 virtual coins, or a sensor sends a massive integer, and your app starts spitting out negative numbers or just plain wrong results. 🤯 What gives? You've just been hit by the classic integer overflow bug. And in today's world, where applications handle more data than ever, this isn't just an academic problem—it's a real, production-crashing, business-logic-…  ( 10 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Accelerating data engineering with AI Agents for AWS Analytics (ANT215) In this video, Shubham Mehta, Product Manager for AWS Analytics, introduces AI agents designed to reduce the 60-70% of time data teams spend on undifferentiated tasks. He announces two major launches: the industry's first Apache Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR that automates upgrades from Spark 2.4 to 3.5 through planning, code modification, building, and data quality testing; and the SageMaker Data Agent, a role-specific agent aware of business data and catalogs that performs multi-step planning for tasks like building machine learning pipelines. The demo showcases building a customer lifetime value prediction model using linear regression with …  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Solution-based selling strategies in AWS Marketplace (PEX110) In this video, AWS Marketplace introduces Multi-product Solutions, a new feature enabling customers to purchase multiple products from different categories in a single transaction. The session demonstrates how this addresses the shift from individual product procurement to outcome-focused solution buying. Using Accenture and Elastic's data readiness engine for Gen AI as an example, the presentation walks through the complete lifecycle: how partners create solutions combining software and professional services, how customers discover them through agentic search or filtering, how sellers customize offer sets with flexible pricing for each component, and how buy…  ( 15 min )

Java String.min()? The Method That Doesn't Exist (And What to Use Instead) Alright, let's address the elephant in the room right off the bat. If you landed here searching for Java String min(), you're probably a bit frustrated. You might have seen something about it in a forum, or maybe you just assumed such a common-sense method should exist. You fire up your IDE, type "hello".min("world"), and… nothing. Compiler error. Red squiggly lines. That moment of, "Wait, what?" You're not alone. This is a super common point of confusion for Java developers, both new and experienced. The truth is there is NO built-in String.min() or String.max() method in Java's standard String class. It feels like it should be there, right? But it isn't. So, what now? Do you just give up? Absolutely not. This "m…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Build agentic workflows on AWS with third-party agents and tools (AIM3311) In this video, AWS presenters Andrei Okhotnikov and Dr. Salman Taherian, along with Workday's Meera Rajaram, demonstrate building agentic workflows using AWS services and third-party tools. The session covers AWS's AgentCore stack including Runtime, Gateway, Identity, and observability features. Meera shares Workday's production experience implementing a Planning Agent with AgentCore Code Interpreter, achieving 50% token reduction and production deployment in just three days with minimal resources. Salman provides a hands-on demonstration building a Company Research Agent using LangChain framework, Anthropic Claude models, and Tavily search tool …  ( 34 min )

Finding new and exciting libraries on GitHub can be noisy. The standard "Trending" tab is great, but it often shows old repositories that just happened to get a random spike in activity today. I wanted more control. I wanted to see projects that were created recently (like in the last week) but are already gaining traction. So, I built OhNiceRepo. This is a simple web app that connects to the GitHub API to help you discover rising stars. Instead of a generic list, it lets you filter specifically by language creation date and star count. For example, you can search for "TypeScript repositories created in the last 7 days with at least 100 stars." This filters out the ancient libraries and leaves you with the fresh, trending gems that are actually new. The project is fully open source. If you want to find some new libraries to play with, or if you just want to see how the code handles the GitHub API, check it out. Live Demo: https://ohnicerepo.pages.dev/ Source Code: https://github.com/behnamazimi/ohnicerepo Please show your support and drop a star on the GitHub repo! Your star counts a ton, and hey, maybe it'll help OhNiceRepo itself get featured in someone else's list of nice repos! ⭐ Happy discovering! 👩‍💻  ( 6 min )

Memory curation by a single LLM wasn't working. Vocabulary sprawled—properties proliferated with no coordination. Observations duplicated across sessions. Context-dependent notes created unconnected fragments. The memory graph grew larger but less coherent. I needed a better approach to curation. But a friend's question made me realize the real problem. "If the LLM curates your memory, won't it reflect your own bias?" My immediate response: Not really, because: The memory contains only AI observations (not my direct input) Multiple LLMs already contribute across sessions Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and open-source models all add observations The diversity is already there But the question lingered. What if the LLM does accumulate bias through how it curates? Not my bias necessarily, but its o…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Amazon Nova 2 Omni: A new frontier in multimodal AI (AIM3324) In this video, AWS introduces Amazon Nova 2 Omni, a unified multimodal AI model that can understand text, images, video, and audio while generating both text and images. The presenters demonstrate its superior performance in document understanding with complex OCR, audio transcription with multi-speaker diarization, video temporal reasoning, and high-quality image generation with accurate text rendering. Nova 2 Omni ranks second on the MMAU leaderboard and outperforms competitors in winning rate comparisons. Dentsu Digital's Chief AI Officer Yamamoto showcases real-world applications including video creative performance prediction achieving 0.88 …  ( 31 min )

Cuando un conductor necesita arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Quijorna, suele encontrarse ante una situación inesperada que requiere una solución rápida, profesional y de confianza. Un neumático pinchado puede arruinar cualquier plan: desde un desplazamiento de trabajo hasta una salida familiar o un recado rápido por el municipio. Por eso es fundamental contar con un servicio cercano que pueda resolver el problema sin complicaciones. Nuestro taller en Quijorna ofrece una respuesta inmediata, con técnicos especializados y herramientas modernas diseñadas para reparar el daño con precisión. Si buscas arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Quijorna, te garantizamos un servicio eficaz, un trato cercano y la tranquilidad de conducir con total seguridad después de la intervención. Somos un equipo de …  ( 8 min )

Cuando un conductor necesita arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Brunete, normalmente se encuentra en una situación inesperada que requiere una respuesta rápida y eficaz. Un pinchazo puede suceder en los momentos más inoportunos: de camino al trabajo, durante un viaje familiar o mientras circulas por las tranquilas calles de Brunete. Por eso, disponer de un servicio profesional, cercano y especializado es fundamental para minimizar las molestias y garantizar la seguridad. Nuestro taller está preparado para atenderte de inmediato, ofreciéndote soluciones rápidas y fiables. Si buscas arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Brunete, te garantizamos profesionalidad, atención personalizada y la tranquilidad de saber que tu vehículo está en manos expertas. Somos un equipo especializado en neumáticos, me…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to accelerating large-scale migration (SNR301) In this video, Jake Burns, AWS Executive in Residence and former Live Nation Ticketmaster CTO, shares insights from successfully migrating to AWS in 17 months with no budget and frozen headcount, achieving 50% TCO reduction. He identifies six pillars for successful cloud migration: compelling why, utilizing constraints, investing in people, building momentum, embracing simplicity, and strong leadership. Burns advocates insourcing migrations to upskill existing employees rather than outsourcing, separating migration from modernization, and using a Minimum Viable Refactoring approach instead of the traditional 7 R's framework. He emphasizes that constraints d…  ( 37 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections Coming from a blockchain engineering background, I approached the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with specific expectations. I wanted to understand how AI agents could solve one of the biggest challenges in smart contract development: autonomous decision-making in decentralized systems. What I discovered was far more profound. The course covered agent architectures—planning, memory, and tool use. Immediately, I recognized parallels with blockchain consensus mechanisms. Just as Byzantine Fault Tolerant systems must reach agreement despite adversarial actors, AI agents must make consistent decisions despite uncertainty. What resonated: Agent planning loops are strikingly similar to state machines in Ether…  ( 8 min )

Quantum Security's Blind Spot: When Eavesdroppers Fly Under the Radar Imagine building a fortress, only to discover a hidden tunnel accessible to anyone. That's the unsettling reality facing quantum security. We've long believed that quantum key distribution (QKD) offers unparalleled security, but recent discoveries suggest vulnerabilities that could render our defenses ineffective. The problem? Current methods for verifying the trustworthiness of quantum systems might be easily fooled. The core concept revolves around quantum correlation certification – ensuring the "quantumness" of a system. We typically analyze data from quantum systems to confirm it aligns with theoretical quantum properties. However, a sophisticated adversary could subtly mix classical data (which is vulnerable to e…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - High-performance storage for AI/ML, analytics, and HPC workloads (STG336) In this video, AWS product managers Aditi and Manish, along with Principal Engineer Mark Roper, discuss high-performance storage solutions for AI/ML, analytics, and HPC workloads. They explain how storage bottlenecks prevent compute resources from scaling linearly, wasting 90-95% of workload spend on underutilized CPUs and GPUs. The session covers two main approaches: FSx for Lustre for file-based workloads, delivering over 1 TB/s throughput with sub-millisecond latencies and new FSx Intelligent Tiering for automatic data management; and Amazon S3 Express One Zone for S3-native applications, providing 10x faster access and scaling to 2 million tra…  ( 27 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to advanced mental models and mechanisms (SNR303) In this video, Stephen Brozovich, AWS Executive in Residence and 26-year Amazon veteran, explains how Amazon maintains its culture through clearly articulated mental models, intentional behaviors, and reinforcing mechanisms. He introduces Amazon's 16 Leadership Principles, particularly Customer Obsession and Ownership, demonstrating how they drive decision-making across the organization. Using the Antikythera mechanism as a metaphor, he illustrates how organizational artifacts lose meaning over time without reinforced mental models. Brozovich details Amazon's Working Backwards process (press release, FAQ, visuals) and the Customer Service Andon Cord mech…  ( 37 min )

Cuando un conductor necesita arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Villanueva de la Cañada, normalmente se encuentra en una situación inesperada que requiere una solución rápida y profesional. Los pinchazos pueden ocurrir en cualquier momento: durante un trayecto al trabajo, en un desplazamiento familiar o incluso en los caminos más tranquilos del municipio. Por eso, contar con un servicio especializado y cercano marca una gran diferencia. Nuestro taller está preparado para ofrecer una atención inmediata, eficiente y segura para que puedas volver a circular sin problemas. Si buscas arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Villanueva de la Cañada, te garantizamos un servicio ágil, con técnicos expertos y con la máxima calidad para asegurar tu tranquilidad en todo momento. Somos un equipo experto en ne…  ( 8 min )

Cuando un conductor busca arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Villanueva del Pardillo, normalmente lo hace porque se encuentra ante una situación urgente que requiere una solución inmediata, segura y profesional. Un pinchazo puede aparecer en cualquier momento: de camino al trabajo, llevando a los niños al colegio o circulando por las calles tranquilas del municipio. Por eso, contar con un servicio especializado que responda rápido es fundamental. En nuestro taller ofrecemos exactamente eso: rapidez, confianza y un equipo preparado para ayudarte cuando necesitas arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Villanueva del Pardillo sin perder tiempo. Sabemos lo estresante que puede resultar un neumático desinflado, y por ello hemos optimizado nuestra atención para que vuelvas a la carretera con total seg…  ( 8 min )

Upgrade Your React Apps!!! DrPrime01 ・ Dec 6 #react #nextjs #security #vulnerabilities  ( 6 min )

Cuando un conductor busca arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Moralzarzal, normalmente lo hace porque necesita una solución rápida, fiable y lo más cercana posible. Un pinchazo no solo interrumpe tu día, sino que puede convertirse en un inconveniente peligroso si no se atiende a tiempo. Por eso, ofrecemos un servicio especializado pensado para quienes requieren una reparación inmediata sin perder calidad ni seguridad. Nuestro objetivo es que cualquier persona que necesite arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Moralzarzal encuentre en nuestro taller un aliado capaz de responder a la urgencia con profesionalidad, rapidez y un trato cercano. Ya sea que te haya sorprendido un pinchazo en pleno desplazamiento o que hayas notado una pérdida de aire repentina, estamos aquí para devolverte la tranquilid…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Zoox: Building Machine Learning Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles (AMZ304) In this video, Zoox's Jim Robinson-Bohnslav, Avinash Kolluri, and Anindya discuss how Zoox leverages AWS SageMaker HyperPod to train foundation models for autonomous robotaxis. They explain Zoox's multimodal language action model that processes camera, LIDAR, and radar data to handle edge cases like jaywalkers and unusual objects. The presentation covers their training pipeline from supervised fine-tuning with tens of thousands of driving hours to reinforcement learning using GRPO and DAPO. Key infrastructure challenges include managing petabytes of data, implementing HSDP and tensor parallelism across 64+ GPUs, and achieving 95% GPU utiliza…  ( 32 min )

For the last couple of days, Ethereum has shown up as “a shared computer” and “a platform for decentralized apps”, not just “another coin like Bitcoin”. Day 6 is about the two ideas that make that possible: smart contracts and dApps, explained for people who don’t write Solidity.​ Bitcoin’s main idea is digital money on a public network instead of inside a bank’s database. Ethereum extends that idea by letting the network run small programs, not just track balances, so you can encode rules and logic alongside assets.​ That extra programmability is what powers most of what people call “Web3” today: DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and on‑chain games are all just different combinations of contracts and interfaces on top of Ethereum.​ A smart contract is a small program stored on a blockchain that runs auto…  ( 9 min )

Managing secure access to your AWS resources—without juggling IP whitelisting or exposing your infrastructure—is easier than you think. In this guide, you’ll learn how to create your own certificates using EasyRSA, upload them to AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), and configure a fully functional AWS Client VPN Endpoint. By the end, you’ll be able to connect securely to your VPC with a simple VPN client. Generating server & client certificates using EasyRSA Uploading certificates to AWS ACM Creating and configuring an AWS Client VPN Endpoint Associating networks & setting authorization rules Downloading the .ovpn file and connecting securely Let’s get started! 1. Download EasyRSA Download the ZIP for your Windows version from: 👉 Download EasyRSA 2. Open EasyRSA Shell C:\Program Files\EasyRSA-…  ( 8 min )

This entire insight began with something simple: counting down 10 seconds over and over while working at Costco. In that repetitive rhythm, a deeper truth revealed itself — small cycles repeated consistently create massive, accelerating growth. What starts as a way to pass the time becomes a window into how mastery, patience, and power scale in real life., Power, Patience, and Mastery** 1. The Mathematical Insight: Why Products Scale Quadratically When you multiply numbers inside the range 1–100, something surprising happens: The inputs grow linearly (1, 2, 3, 4...). But the outputs grow quadratically (1², 2², 3², 4²...). A. Real Data Example: The Jump From 10 to 20 vs 90 to 100 Here’s how much the product changes when you increase a number by just +10: n n² (n+10)² Increase 10 …  ( 9 min )

Encontrar un lugar fiable para arreglar pinchazos cerca de mi en Pozuelo de Alarcón es fundamental cuando surge una emergencia en la carretera. Un pinchazo puede ocurrir en el momento menos esperado: camino al trabajo, llevando a los niños al colegio o incluso durante un viaje corto dentro del municipio. En esos momentos, lo que más se valora es la rapidez, la profesionalidad y la cercanía del servicio. En Pozuelo de Alarcón, una zona conocida por su tránsito fluido, sus urbanizaciones y su vida familiar, disponer de un taller especializado y accesible que pueda solucionar el problema en minutos ofrece una tranquilidad enorme. Nuestro objetivo es ayudarte a volver a circular sin complicaciones, con la seguridad de que tu vehículo queda en manos expertas. Quiénes Somos Somos un equipo de pr…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From ideas to impact: Architecting with cloud best practices (ARC204) In this video, James Beaumont and Paul Moran present AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework, celebrating their 10-year anniversary. They explain how these frameworks work together—CAF for organizational strategy and Well-Architected for technical implementation. The session covers AWS's operational culture including service ownership model, correction of error (COE) process, and Weekly Operations Review. Paul dives deep into the six Well-Architected pillars, focusing on Operational Excellence design principles. He demonstrates CloudWatch's AI-powered investigation capabilities for automated troubleshooting, discusses the five caus…  ( 36 min )

Embeddings ≠ memory! They're just one piece. True recall needs structure, decay, & more. OpenMemory offers long-term memory for AI agents — self-hosted, local-first, open-source. github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory #OpenSource #MachineLearning #LLM  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with CEO Matt Garman In this video, AWS CEO Matt Garman announces AWS has grown to a $132 billion business with 20% year-over-year growth. He unveils major AI infrastructure advances including P6e-GB300 instances with NVIDIA GB300, AWS AI Factories for dedicated on-premises AI infrastructure, and Trainium3 UltraServers delivering 4.4x more compute. Key launches include Amazon Nova 2 model family (Lite, Pro, Sonic, Omni), Nova Forge for open training models creating custom "Novellas," and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enhancements with Policy and Evaluations. Three frontier agents debut: Kiro autonomous agent for software development, AWS Security Agent for proactive security testing, and AWS DevOps Agent for incident…  ( 72 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to emerging technologies: From insights to rapid action-SNR203 In this video, former CIO Arvind and NASA's first CTO Tom Soderstrom address the dual mandate facing technology leaders: delivering operational excellence while championing innovation. They present eight major technology trends including generative AI, edge computing, robotics, medical impacts, data growth to quettabytes, crypto, quantum computing, and energy. The centerpiece is Tech Recon, an open-source multi-agent AI system they developed that automatically scans technology landscapes, generates reports, and scores technologies by impact, maturity, and momentum. They demonstrate how this agentic solution creates both broad landscape analy…  ( 34 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to achieving compliance through software excellence (SNR304) In this video, Tom Godden (AWS Executive in Residence, former CIO of Foundation Medicine) and Ian Sutcliffe (Principal Tech Strategist) present a framework for achieving compliance through software excellence rather than documentation theater. They introduce "natural compliance" where quality emerges from engineering practices, not manual processes. The framework consists of four pillars: culture (shifting from compliance to quality mindset with weekly demos), organization (embedding compliance experts in product teams, eliminating silos), mechanisms (automating testing, using CI/CD pipelines as validators, leveraging existing tools like JIRA …  ( 29 min )

I’m trying to build a health-monitoring system in Python that needs to send alert messages through WhatsApp. The problem is that my company doesn’t allow any third-party services or paid APIs, and they want the solution to be completely free. We are using SQL Server as the database (already licensed by the company). I only know a bit of Python, so I’m not sure what options I have without using third-party tools like Twilio or Meta’s Cloud API. Is there any way to send WhatsApp messages directly from Python under these restrictions? Or are there alternative approaches I should consider?  ( 6 min )

Hook: the problem I solve in two sentences Clients want sites that look exceptional. Users want pages that load instantly. As a designer-developer, you’re stuck between brand aspirations and the cold reality of performance metrics — and your job is to make both win. Fast sites convert better, rank higher, and feel more professional. Slow sites frustrate users and kill revenue: statistics repeatedly show mobile users abandoning pages that take too long to load. At the same time, brands need visual expression — photography, type, motion — to stand out. The trick is not to choose one, but to design with both constraints in mind. Each choice has consequences. Typical culprits that increase load time: Large unoptimized images and video files Multiple custom web fonts and font weights Heavy Ja…  ( 8 min )

If you're building a portfolio website for yourself or a client, choosing the right Portfolio WordPress theme makes a huge difference. A good theme improves UX, performance, SEO, and how your work is showcased. I recently published a detailed guide covering some of the best Portfolio WordPress themes for designers, agencies, developers, photographers, and freelancers. 👉 Full Guide Here: https://themexriver.com/portfolio-wordpress-themes/ 🔥 What You’ll Find in the Guide Themes for agencies, designers, photographers & freelancers Whether you're showcasing apps, UI/UX work, photography, digital services, or creative projects — this guide helps you choose the perfect theme.  ( 6 min )

Introduction In many companies, business reports are very important for making the right decisions. Leaders need fast and accurate information to track performance, find new opportunities, and plan strategies. Despite this, many professionals still make reports by hand, spending hours copying data, cleaning spreadsheets, and creating the same charts week after week or month after month. Studies show that analysts spend 30% to 40% of their workweek on these repetitive tasks. Manual reporting not only wastes time but also increases the risk of mistakes. In fact, around 88% of spreadsheets have at least one serious error. These mistakes can affect important business decisions and cause costly problems. Automating business reports in Excel solves these issues. It turns repetitive work into a…  ( 8 min )

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Daily Tech News Roundup Welcome to your daily dose of tech news! Today, we're covering everything from bizarre art installations featuring robot dogs to the latest advancements and controversies in AI and autonomous driving. Stay informed with the top stories shaping the tech landscape. Beeple's Robot Dog Art Sells for Big Bucks Digital artist Beeple is making waves again, this time with a $100,000 robot dog sporting his face alongside the likes of Elon Musk and Picasso. The piece, which continues Beeple's trend of blending art and technology, sold quickly, marking another high-profile moment for the artist in the art world. Source The Verge's 2025 Holiday Gift Guide is Here Feeling the holiday crunch already? The Verge has released its 2025 holiday gift guide, aiming to help you navigate …  ( 7 min )

Developers handle information in ways that shift constantly—APIs today, docs tomorrow, build pipelines the next hour. Sometimes the smallest tooling decisions smooth out workflow friction more than big architectural changes. One example from my own routine: I use QR codes to bridge my physical notes with digital resources during architecture discussions. Instead of emailing links or digging through bookmarks during a whiteboard session, I attach a small printed code to the diagram. Anyone in the room can scan and jump directly to the spec or reference snippet. It keeps conversations moving without derailing into side quests. This kind of lightweight cross-device handoff is underrated. It isn’t automation, not exactly—more like greasing the wheels of collaboration. And since QR codes encode plain text or URLs, they don’t add additional tooling overhead or require onboarding. For anyone who prefers quick utilities without configuration clutter, a simple online generator is available at https://www.knowadvance.com/qr-code-generator .  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with CEO Matt Garman In this video, AWS CEO Matt Garman announces AWS has grown to a $132 billion business with 20% year-over-year growth. He unveils major AI infrastructure advances including P6e-GB300 instances with NVIDIA GB300 processors, AWS AI Factories for dedicated on-premises AI infrastructure, and Trainium3 UltraServers delivering 4.4x more compute. Key launches include Amazon Nova 2 model family (Lite, Pro, Sonic, Omni), Nova Forge for open training models creating custom "Novellas," and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enhancements with Policy and Evaluations capabilities. Three frontier agents debut: Kiro autonomous agent for software development, AWS Security Agent for proactive security testing, and AWS D…  ( 72 min )

PHP has powered the web for more than two decades. Even today—despite the rise of JavaScript frameworks, Python, and Go—PHP remains one of the most widely used backend languages. Platforms like WordPress, Laravel, WooCommerce, and Drupal still rely heavily on PHP, and its ecosystem continues to evolve. If you are new to programming or looking to sharpen your backend skills, PHP is still an excellent, job-friendly option. This article provides a concise but complete overview of PHP for both beginners and intermediate developers, including syntax basics, best practices, and real-world examples. 1. What Is PHP and Why Is It Still Relevant? PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side scripting language used to build dynamic and interactive websites. It is: Easy to learn Beginner-friendly W…  ( 8 min )

@blink_c5eb0afe3975 As you guys know that I am starting to log my progress again I thought it will be best to do it on a different account to maintain consistency Follow me there buds!  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AI agents for cloud ops: Automating infrastructure management (AIM340) In this video, AWS Solutions Architects Omar Tabbakha and Shawn Abdi demonstrate building AI agents for cloud security operations using Strands SDK and Amazon Bedrock. They showcase a multi-agent architecture that automates security incident response by integrating DynamoDB for business context, Amazon Security Lake with OCSF schema for normalized log analysis, and Cloud Control MCP server for infrastructure remediation. The demo walks through creating three specialized agents: a metadata agent retrieving account criticality and compliance data, a Security Lake agent converting natural language to SQL queries via Amazon Athena, and a supervisor agent…  ( 36 min )

Introduction A strong business strategy begins with the ability to predict future performance, and Excel remains one of the most reliable tools for achieving this. As organizations continue to rely on data-driven decisions, Excel provides the structure, functions, and flexibility needed to forecast sales accurately and project revenue with confidence. Its analytical power transforms historical data into meaningful insights, helping businesses plan smarter, operate efficiently, and stay ahead in a competitive market. Sales forecasting is a cornerstone of effective business management. It provides the clarity organizations need to plan operations, set budgets, allocate resources, and anticipate market behavior. Without dependable forecasts, businesses risk making decisions based on assumptio…  ( 8 min )

Article by: Hashira Belén Vargas Candia Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools analyze source code to identify security vulnerabilities before the application is deployed. While tools like SonarQube, Snyk, and Semgrep are popular, this article explores Micro Focus Fortify Static Code Analyzer (SCA) – an enterprise-grade SAST solution for comprehensive security analysis. Fortify SCA offers: Multi-language support (Java, .NET, C++, Python, JavaScript, etc.) Deep code analysis with data flow and control flow tracking Comprehensive vulnerability database (OWASP Top 10, CWE, etc.) Integration capabilities with CI/CD pipelines Detailed remediation guidance Setting Up Fortify SCA for a Node.js Application Prerequisites Micro Focus Fortify SCA installat…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Slack Platform: Build with AI-Powered Development (AIM111) In this video, a Slack developer demonstrates how to supercharge AI-assisted development using Slack's platform and deploy AI agents. The presentation covers Slack's event-driven architecture, showcasing how multiple agents (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Codex) can coexist in channels and be invoked like team members. A live demo shows GitHub Copilot automatically creating PRs and providing asynchronous updates. Key features highlighted include out-of-the-box UI, contextual APIs, WebSocket support for local development without endpoint setup, and the ability to build functioning Slack apps in under 67 minutes using AI-assisted coding tools. The speaker emphasi…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Exploring dual pathways to agentic commerce with AWS and Stripe (AIM114) In this video, Stripe presents how AWS and Stripe enable secure agentic commerce through two modes: business-to-agent (B2A) and agent-to-consumer (A2C). The speaker introduces Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open standard co-authored with OpenAI that makes human-readable checkouts machine-readable for AI agents. Key innovation includes shared payment tokens with built-in guardrails to prevent fraud and budget overruns. Live on Etsy with Walmart and Shopify implementations underway, customers can now purchase directly within ChatGPT. The presentation also covers Stripe's payments foundation model trained on billions of transactions, ach…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - The Zero Migration Path from Data to Enterprise Agentic AI (AIM123) In this video, Trianz presents their Concierto platform's zero-migration approach to enterprise agentic AI. The platform offers five solutions: modernization, migration, management, maximize (observability), and insights/agentic AI. Key challenges addressed include the 18-24 month traditional data platform deployment versus the 11-month industry transformation cycle. Concierto enables federated data connectivity across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments without moving data, productizes data based on usage rather than storage, operates on zero-code principles, and leverages existing governance. The DALAI assessment evaluates agentic AI readiness a…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Alert to Resolution: Supercharge AWS Ops with the Agentic AI SRE (AIM225) In this video, NeuBird's AI SRE agent called Hawkeye is demonstrated, showing how it automates root cause analysis of production incidents by analyzing telemetry data from multiple observability tools like Datadog, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch. The presentation showcases Hawkeye's integration with coding assistants through MCP (Model Context Protocol), enabling SREs to investigate alerts, run deep analyses, and implement fixes directly in tools like Claude Code and Cursor without switching interfaces. Real customer examples include an insurance company reducing incident costs, a logistics firm managing Databricks pipelines, and an Australian ba…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Beyond the Hype: Delivering Measurable ROI with Generative AI on AWS (AIM231) In this video, a speaker with 20+ years of industry experience discusses Generative AI implementation challenges and best practices. They address a headline claiming 95% of GenAI projects failed to show measurable ROI, clarifying that 40% still reached production and 67% succeeded with expert help. Key issues include choosing poor use cases and lacking internal expertise. The speaker traces GenAI history from 1906 to present, emphasizing that ChatGPT's 2023 breakthrough was simply making models accessible via a website. Major topics include chatbots as primary interfaces, image generation limitations, hallucination rates (40-45% for GPT-5, dro…  ( 18 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Customer Story: AI Adoption with Salesforce & Amazon Bedrock (AIM267) In this video, Shibani Ahuia from Salesforce and Sameer Vuvvuru from Capita discuss their partnership leveraging Salesforce Agentforce and Amazon Bedrock to build agentic AI at scale. Ahuia shares insights from engaging with 520 CIOs, noting the evolution from DIY AI approaches to agentic native integration strategies. Vuvvuru explains how Capita, the UK's largest public sector BPO touching 70% of the UK population weekly, implemented 44 AI use cases combining both platforms. He demonstrates measurable results including eliminating double-digit million pounds in contract penalties, improving win rates, and expanding contact center operations from 9-to…  ( 17 min )

En # Guía de Inicio: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Esta guía te ayudará a construir y desplegar un agente de IA listo para producción en minutos utilizando Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Requisitos Previos Instalación del Toolkit Crear el Agente Configurar y Desplegar Monitorear el Despliegue Probar Memoria y Code Interpreter Ver Trazas y Logs Limpieza de Recursos Solución de Problemas Antes de comenzar, asegúrate de tener: Usuarios root de AWS o usuarios con roles privilegiados (como AdministratorAccess) pueden omitir este paso Otros usuarios necesitan adjuntar la política del starter toolkit y la política administrada AmazonBedrockAgentCoreFullAccess 2. AWS CLI Versión 2.0 o posterior Configurar usando: aws configure 3. Acceso al Modelo Amazon Bedrock Habilitar acceso…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity: eSentire’s Atlas AI Powered by Snowflake & AWS In this video, Matt Marzillo from Snowflake and Dustin Hillard, CTO of eSentire, discuss integrating Snowflake's AI capabilities with AWS for cybersecurity. Matt introduces Snowflake Cortex, which offers batch processing of unstructured data and agentic systems through Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, and Cortex Agent. Dustin explains how eSentire uses Snowflake to consolidate security telemetry data—processing 20TB daily from network, endpoint, and log sources. Their agentic system performs up to 30 tool calls per investigation, achieving 95% alignment with senior analyst decisions while reducing investigation time from 10-15 minutes. This ena…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Fixing AI’s Confidently Wrong Problem in the Enterprise (AIM269) In this video, the speaker addresses AI's critical flaw of being "confidently wrong," which prevents business users from trusting AI systems with their data. Drawing from PromptQL's approach, they demonstrate a solution where AI explicitly indicates what it knows (blue links to wiki entries) versus what it doesn't know (red links for assumptions). When AI encounters unknown concepts like "FY," it makes transparent assumptions and allows experts to join conversations to clarify, creating a learning loop that captures tribal knowledge. The system maintains a collaborative wiki that both AI and humans update, enabling continuous improvement. This approach all…  ( 16 min )

Small shop owners deal with a kind of pain no one sees. Inventory mismatches. “Did I actually make a profit today?” As developers, we often chase big, flashy ideas. But sometimes the most meaningful problems are small, simple, and right in front of us. This is the story of how I built Stoqyy, a lightweight MERN-based inventory + billing system designed specifically for small retailers. 👀 The Real Problem I Saw I live in India, and around me, every local shop owner had the same struggle: They tracked inventory on paper They created bills manually They couldn't calculate daily profits They couldn't check which items were actually selling They made purchase decisions based on “guessing” This wasn’t a tech problem. clarity problem. And clarity is something software is great at giving. 🧩 My…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AWS Support: New Tiers Making Customer Operations Effortless (SPS325) In this video, George He, Senior Product Manager at AWS, introduces the redesigned AWS Support with three new tiers: Business Support Plus for scaling startups with AI-powered 24/7 assistance and 30-minute response times, Enterprise Support for organizations at scale featuring Technical Account Managers and 15-minute response times, and Unified Operations for mission-critical operations with Domain Specialist Engineers and 5-minute critical incident response. He demonstrates how AI-powered intelligence, proactive detection, and human experts help customers navigate Gen AI deployments, from initial architecture decisions through production outages to g…  ( 14 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Next-Generation Data Management — Insights at Scale with Agentic AI in Pharma In this video, a ZS representative discusses agentic AI transformation in life sciences data management. The speaker emphasizes that 9 out of 10 CIOs are shifting from POCs to full-scale implementation, focusing on value creation rather than just automation. Two core paradigms are introduced: "AI for data" (achieving 40% efficiency gains in data engineering) and "data for AI" (creating comprehensive metadata lakes to improve accuracy from 70% to 98%). Key use cases include automated analytics workflows, clinical document generation, and software development lifecycle optimization with up to 75% efficiency gains in testing. The speaker stresses…  ( 18 min )

How We Built Ad Injection That Users Actually Appreciate In the rapidly evolving world of AI applications, developers face a significant challenge: monetization. Many AI apps are incredibly innovative but lack effective monetization models that don’t disrupt user experience. Enter Monetzly, the first dual-earning platform in the AI space, which allows developers to monetize their apps while seamlessly integrating contextually relevant ads that users actually appreciate. At Monetzly, we’ve crafted a unique approach to ad injection that prioritizes user experience. Our conversation-native advertising leverages AI-powered contextual matching, ensuring that ads are not just relevant but enhance the dialogue users are having with your application. This means ads are dynamically tailored to t…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Tapping into the Power of Agentic AI: Driving Mission Success with NVIDIA & AWS In this video, NVIDIA and AWS partnership for generative AI agentic design is explored, covering the evolution from LLMs to RAG, fine-tuning, and agents. The session explains NVIDIA's terminology including NEMO (neural modules), NIMs (NVIDIA Inference Microservices), and Blueprints for Kubernetes deployment. Key challenges in scaling agents to production are addressed, emphasizing exponential token growth, security, and data governance. The NVIDIA Nemo agent toolkit offers modularized solutions with framework-agnostic support, delivering 57% fewer lines of code, 16x faster data processing with Nemo Curator, and 2x faster response times. Demo…  ( 17 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025-AWS Generative AI Innovation Center driving enterprise success with AWS Partners In this video, Jacqueline Krain and Taimur Rashid from AWS discuss moving generative AI from experimentation to production deployment. Taimur, who leads the Generative AI Innovation Center, presents four key pillars for success: leveraging proprietary data as a competitive differentiator, building with a production-ready mindset, scaling through agentic AI, and redefining value measurement. He shares real-world examples including LCA's HIPAA-compliant healthcare solution, SonicWall's 40% code maintainability improvement, and Krugxi bank's 50% faster cloud migration using specialized ETL agents. The session highlights AWS tools like Bedrock, S…  ( 15 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Maximizing customer outcomes: AWS Partner Led Customer Success (PEX106) In this video, AWS addresses how customer success is the solution to closing the AI investment value gap, as 75% of companies investing in AI aren't seeing tangible business outcomes. The presentation introduces a framework for systematically tracking and delivering value through post-launch stages: Onboard, Activate, Consume & Adopt, and Scale. Real customer examples are shared, including Gimbo with Flexa achieving 95% faster decision-making, MediaCorp with Crayon reducing content production time from 20 to 3 seconds, and Tower Insurance with Deloitte cutting average handling time by 3 minutes across 630 agents. Cynthia discusses learnings from a p…  ( 17 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Unlocking GenAI potential with automated modernization to AWS (ANT313) In this video, Sachneet Singh Bains from Impetus Technologies explains how their LeapLogic solution accelerates enterprise legacy system modernization to AWS with 90-95% automation. The presentation covers their four-step methodology (assess, transform, validate, operationalize) for migrating EDW, ETL, BI, and Hadoop systems. Key differentiators include pattern-based transformation, end-to-end lineage mapping, and cell-by-cell validation. Case studies demonstrate 70% effort savings for United Airlines' Teradata-to-Redshift migration and 50% time reduction for Bank United's reporting. The session also introduces PRISM, an AI-enabled unified observabil…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Capital One: From Chaos Testing to Continuous Verification (SPS328) In this video, Sheng Liao from AWS and Troy Koss from Capital One discuss how Capital One transformed from point-in-time chaos testing to continuous verification. They explain why chaos engineering matters in complex distributed systems, highlighting the resilience gap created by quarterly game days versus continuous testing. Troy details their automated reliability verification framework built on four key dimensions: controlled self-service platform using AWS FIS, emergency stop mechanisms with rollback capabilities, service level objectives for measuring impact, and continuous automated testing. The approach addresses constant system entropy from dail…  ( 14 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Fast-track to insights: AWS-SAP data strategy (ANT333) In this video, Satish and Bjoern explore AWS and SAP's 17-year partnership for enterprise data integration. Satish demonstrates AWS Glue Zero-ETL, a fully managed, no-code service that replicates SAP data to S3, S3 Tables, or Redshift in near real-time (under 10 seconds), supporting sources like SAP OData, Oracle, MySQL, and Salesforce. Bjoern introduces SAP Business Data Cloud, launched on AWS in February 2025, which creates data products combining SAP and non-SAP data using a lakehouse architecture with medallion layers (bronze, silver, gold). The solution leverages open resource discovery protocol and Deltashare for zero-copy consumption, enabling AI agents to un…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Your 20-Minute Essential Guide (GBL101) In this video, Armin Schneider, a digital sovereignty specialist from Germany, introduces the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), launching by end of 2025 in Brandenburg, Germany. He explains the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge addressing data residency, operator access, and operational independence. The ESC features physical separation with independent governance through four new EU companies, dedicated IAM and DNS systems, and operations restricted to EU residents. Built on the Sovereign Requirements Framework, it ensures customer content and metadata stay within the EU, launches with over 80 services, and operates independently with its own root of …  ( 16 min )

Build faster UI pipelines with AI-assisted design-to-code workflows Modern product teams want UI development to move at the speed of design. But the handoff between Figma designers and React engineers is still one of the biggest bottlenecks—manual translation, pixel-pushing, styling inconsistencies, and rework. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) unlocks a new way to bridge this gap: a server-driven, AI-powered pipeline that can ingest Figma design metadata and generate clean, production-ready React components automatically. In this post, we’ll walk through: What the MCP Server architecture looks like How a custom Figma MCP Server extracts design tokens, frames, nodes How React.js code is generated (including Tailwind, styled-components, or CSS Modules) A real example using the MCP client and…  ( 8 min )

AI This Week: Competition Heats Up While Adoption Struggles - Your Morning Coffee Briefing Introduction The AI world is feeling a bit like a rollercoaster right now. One minute everyone's celebrating billion-dollar valuations and runaway growth, the next we're hearing about companies slashing AI sales targets because customers just aren't biting. So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's break down the five biggest AI stories from this week that'll actually matter to you. [Keyword placement: "AI" appears naturally throughout] Remember when ChatGPT felt like it had the AI market on lock? Those days are long gone. According to Ars Technica, OpenAI's CEO has apparently declared a "code red" as Google's Gemini AI platform has exploded to 200 million users in just three months. Tha…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From Data Chaos to AI Magic: Supercharging Customer Experience (BIZ209) In this video, Rafael Flores, Chief Product Officer at Treasure Data, addresses the gap between AI hype and reality, emphasizing that AI is only as powerful as the data feeding it. He identifies critical challenges including organizational readiness gaps, disparate data issues, and the fact that 40% of AI-first projects will fail by 2027 according to Gartner. Flores presents five essential tips for AI success: identity-resolved memory, real-time context and inference, governance and trust, feedback loops, and extensible ecosystems. He debunks the "zero copy" myth and introduces Treasure Data's Marketing Super Agent, which connects to first-party dat…  ( 18 min )

A Developer’s Guide to Surviving the AI Product Tsunami Jaideep Parashar ・ Dec 6 #webdev #ai #productivity #beginners  ( 6 min )

Let’s be honest. For many developers, the last two years have felt less like a technology wave… and more like a tsunami. Every week brings: a new model a new agent framework a new AI startup a new “this will replace developers” headline a new tool promising 10x productivity And in the middle of all this noise, one silent question keeps growing: “Where do I actually stand in this new world?” This article is not about hype. It’s about survival, relevance, and long-term advantage as a developer in the AI era. Let me break this down in the most practical way possible. 1. The First Truth: AI Is Not Here to Replace Developers; It’s Here to Replace Unstructured Work AI doesn’t replace: thinking judgment system design architecture trade-offs constraints security decisions AI replaces: repetitive c…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Transforming Supply Chains with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (API206) In this video, Chris Bingham from Fujitsu presents their UVANCE SCM solution for supply chain management, addressing challenges of volatility, disruption, and transformation using AI agents built on AWS Bedrock Agent Core. The solution helped a customer quantify earthquake impact within 2 hours versus competitors' 3 days. A key innovation is the Guardian Agent that combats agent drift by combining Agent Core observability data with supply chain managers' feedback to automatically update prompts. The system reduced workforce needs from 1,000 to 500 people, achieved over $10 million in cost savings, and generated accurate prediction models for 1.2 million S…  ( 12 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Agents in the enterprise: Best practices with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore(AIM3310) In this video, AWS Principal Product Manager Kosti Vasilakakis and Tech Lead Maira Ladeira Tanke present best practices for moving agentic AI from POC to production using AgentCore. They outline nine key rules including starting small with defined use cases, implementing observability from day one using OpenTelemetry, exposing tools with clear descriptions, adopting multi-agent architectures, scaling securely with user-specific memory and identity controls, using deterministic code for calculations, and continuous testing with evaluations. The session features live demos showing how to build agents with frameworks like Strands and LangChain,…  ( 36 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - [NEW LAUNCH] Amazon Nova 2 Omni: A new frontier in multimodal AI (AIM3324) In this video, AWS introduces Amazon Nova 2 Omni, a unified multimodal AI model that can understand text, images, video, and audio while also generating high-quality images. The session demonstrates Omni's superior performance in document understanding, OCR, audio transcription with three-speaker diarization, and cross-modal reasoning. Key capabilities include hybrid reasoning control, support for 200+ languages, and one million token context windows. Benchmarks show competitive performance against Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4 models. Dentsu Digital's Chief AI Officer Satoru Yamamoto presents real-world applications including their Mugen AI solutio…  ( 29 min )

Stripboard Savior: AI Automates Your Circuit Layouts Tired of tangled wires and frustrating stripboard layouts? Wish you could instantly visualize the most efficient way to connect your components? What if AI could handle the tedious parts, freeing you to focus on the fun of building? The core idea is to use a special type of AI programming called Answer Set Programming (ASP) to automatically find the best possible arrangement of electronic components on a stripboard. This means describing the rules of electronics (like connections and avoiding shorts) to the AI, and letting it figure out how to make everything fit neatly with minimal board usage. Think of it like a puzzle where the AI tries every possible piece configuration, guided by rules, until it finds the ideal solution. It's like…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Amazon Nova (AIM3325) In this video, Mark Andrews and Karan Bhandarkar introduce Amazon Nova Forge, a service enabling organizations to build custom foundation models using their proprietary data. The session explains how foundation models are constructed through pre-training, mid-training, and post-training phases. Nova Forge provides access to checkpoints at each stage, allowing customers to inject their data at the optimal point while blending it with Amazon Nova's curated training data to prevent catastrophic forgetting. Key features include SageMaker Hyperpod recipes for simplified training, support for custom reinforcement learning environments, and configura…  ( 34 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AWS Trn3 UltraServers: Power next-generation enterprise AI performance(AIM3335) In this video, AWS introduces Trainium 3, their next-generation AI training chip designed for agentic workloads and reasoning models. Ron Diamant details the chip's 362 petaflops compute, 20.7TB HBM3E capacity, and innovations like microscaling hardware circuits and accelerated softmax instructions that achieve sustained performance close to peak specs. The Trainium 3 Ultra server scales to 144 chips with NeuronSwitches enabling low-latency all-to-all communications. Jonathan Gray from Anthropic demonstrates real kernel optimizations, showing how they achieve 60% tensor engine utilization on Trainium 2 and over 90% on Trainium 3 while servin…  ( 34 min )

TL;DR Write test code and automate it. Run tests on various versions of Blender to release with peace of mind. Individual developers who are (or want to be) developing Blender addons. People who want to ensure quality but don't know how to introduce CI/CD. People tired of manual fixes and checks. People interested in CI/CD using GitHub Actions (since this article simply applies a general CI/CD pipeline to Blender addon development). There is plenty of literature detailing DevOps, so I'll skip the deep dive. In short, it is considered a best practice in general software development. In this methodology, the development flow is represented as an infinite loop of the following phases: Phase Process in Blender Addon Development Plan Planning feature implementation, bug fixes, etc. …  ( 12 min )

Introduction In today’s business world, financial analysis is very important for making smart decisions. It does more than just adding and subtracting numbers , it shows how profitable a company is, how efficiently it works, and where it can grow. For students, professionals, and business owners, Microsoft Excel is still a key tool. It helps turn raw financial data into useful information that can guide decisions. Organising Financial Data for Better Insights Good financial analysis starts with organized data. Excel allows businesses to combine different types of data like income statements, cash flows, department costs, and sales into one clear format. This makes it easier to track performance over time and spot trends or unusual patterns. Performing Financial Calculations with Precis…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Improve agent quality in production with Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations(AIM3348) In this video, Amanda Lester, Vivek Singh, and Ishan Singh introduce Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations, a fully managed solution for continuous AI agent quality assessment. They address the trust gap in autonomous agents by demonstrating how to evaluate agents across 13 built-in dimensions including correctness, helpfulness, and tool usage, plus custom evaluators. The session covers both online evaluations for production monitoring and on-demand evaluations for CI/CD pipelines, using a travel agent example to show how tool selection accuracy dropped from 0.91 to 0.3, enabling detection in hours versus weeks. Live demos illustrate setup in…  ( 33 min )

Introduction In this article, we'll explore how to implement Checkov, a powerful open-source SAST tool, to scan and secure your Infrastructure as Code across multiple platforms including Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and more. What is Checkov? Terraform Getting Started with Checkov pip install checkov docker pull bridgecrew/checkov checkov -d /path/to/terraform checkov -f main.tf Vulnerable Configuration resource "aws_s3_bucket" "data_bucket" { # Missing encryption resource "aws_security_group" "web_sg" { ingress { resource "aws_db_instance" "database" { # Missing encryption Check: CKV_AWS_18: "Ensure the S3 bucket has access logging enabled" resource "aws_s3_bucket" "data_bucket" { resource "aws_s3_bucket_versioning" "data_bucket_versioning" { resource "aws_s3_bucket_server_side_…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Behind the scenes: How AWS drives operational excellence & reliability (COP415) In this video, AWS engineers Mustafa Torun and Imaya Kumar Jagannathan explain how AWS achieves operational excellence through mechanisms rather than good intentions. They present a flywheel model with four drivers: readiness (Operational Readiness Reviews, testing, game days), observability (standardized instrumentation using Embedded Metric Format, CloudWatch collecting 5 terabytes of logs per second), incident response (SOPs, escalation culture, AI-powered CloudWatch Investigations with 90% satisfaction rate), and reviews (weekly dashboard reviews, Correction of Error reports using 5 Whys methodology). Key architectural patterns include d…  ( 36 min )

¿Qué vamos a lograr? Tendrás tu web Astro alojada en servidores de Google. Configuraremos un "robot" (GitHub Actions) para que cada vez que hagas un cambio en tu código y lo guardes, la web se actualice sola automáticamente. Tener Node.js instalado en tu ordenador. Una cuenta de Google (Gmail). Una cuenta de GitHub. Tener Git instalado en tu ordenador. Primero vamos a preparar el terreno en Google. Ve a la Consola de Firebase e inicia sesión con tu Google. Haz clic en "Crear un proyecto" (o "Agregar proyecto"). Ponle un nombre (ej: mi-blog-astro). Desactiva "Google Analytics" por ahora (para hacerlo más rápido) y dale a Crear proyecto. Espera unos segundos y dale a Continuar. Ya tienes tu espacio en la nube listo. Si ya tienes una web Astro, salta este paso. Si no: Abre …  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Accelerating incident response through AIOps (COP334) In this video, Pratul Chakre and Andres Silva present AWS CloudWatch's AI-powered operations capabilities using Formula One racing as an analogy. They demonstrate unified data management for CloudWatch, which centralizes telemetry across accounts and regions, supporting OpenTelemetry and OCSF standards. Key features include natural language query generation, MCP servers for CloudWatch that enable bidirectional AI communication, and CloudWatch Investigations—an AI tool that automatically surfaces metrics, logs, and traces to expedite incident resolution. The Kindle team achieved 80% time savings using Investigations. They also introduce the AWS DevOps Agent, a frontie…  ( 35 min )

Alchemy co-founder and president Joe Lau said stablecoin adoption is exploding as banks, fintechs and payment platforms push beyond the USDT/USDC exchange era.  ( 35 min )

The rally is driven by speculation that a final verdict could bring clarity to the project, as well as technical factors like token burns.  ( 33 min )

Prior to MiCA, euro-denominated stablecoins' market cap contracted by 48% in the year leading up to June 2024.  ( 32 min )

The turn in crowd mood comes after a two-month slide of roughly 31%, leaving the token vulnerable to further downside if risk appetite weakens across majors.  ( 32 min )

A stronger yen typically coincides with de-risking across macro portfolios, and that dynamic could tighten liquidity conditions that recently helped bitcoin rebound from November’s lows.  ( 33 min )

The bank is owned by billionaire Andy Beal, a major supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.  ( 32 min )

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In light of the skyrocketing prices of memory and storage components for PC, AMD is now set to follow suit (somewhat) and is raising the price of its Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs. Specifically, it’s upping the price tag for all models by US$10 (~RM41) per 8GB. Unsurprisingly, the rising costs will ultimately be passed […] The post AMD Is Raising The Price Of Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs By RM41 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

It’s now official. Netflix is set to take control of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) in a massive takeover that could be valued as high as US$82.7 billion (~RM339.9 billion). The streaming service outbid rivals including Comcast and Paramount Skydance after a weeks-long contest, ultimately securing Warner Bros’ film, TV and streaming operations, including HBO, HBO […] The post Netflix, Warner Bros Discovery Deal Now Official appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 37 min )

The Lexus LFA is making a comeback while undergoing a transformation into a fully electric (EV) sports car. The concept of this model was unveiled alongside Toyota’s new GR GT and GR GT3. Centred on three key element; a low centre of gravity, low weight with high rigidity, and the pursuit of aerodynamic performance, it […] The post Lexus LFA Revived As An All-Electric Sports Car appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

If you remember, back in 2021 Facebook changed its name to Meta, retaining the eponymous social media platform’s name for the “product”. The reason for this is so that the company’s name reflects the tech that it is investing in – the metaverse. In a pretty ironic turn of events, a Bloomberg report indicates that […] The post Stock Market Celebrates Meta Possibly Cutting Metaverse Spending appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

JBL has announced the newest addition to its PartyBox speaker lineup. Touted as the brand’s loudest battery-powered party speaker, the JBL PartyBox 720 promises high quality sound. Design-wise, the speaker features an integrated handle and a set of wide and sturdy wheels for easy handling. Other features include an IPX4 splashproof rating, as well as […] The post JBL Unveils PartyBox 720; Priced At RM4,999 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

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Guía Definitiva: Cómo crear un Blog de Alto Rendimiento con Astro y Hygraph (Headless CMS) En el mundo del desarrollo web actual, la velocidad no es una característica opcional; es el factor principal de posicionamiento SEO. Astro ha revolucionado el mercado al entregar "0 JavaScript" por defecto al navegador, y Hygraph (anteriormente GraphCMS) ofrece una de las APIs GraphQL más robustas para gestionar contenido. En este artículo, construiremos un blog profesional, totalmente funcional, con rutas dinámicas, renderizado de texto enriquecido y optimización de metadatos para buscadores. Astro (Frontend): Genera HTML estático puro (SSG). Esto significa que Google puede leer tu sitio instantáneamente sin ejecutar JavaScript. Hygraph (Backend): Te permite modelar datos complejos (autores, SEO …  ( 11 min )

💡 The Inspiration I realized I didn't need another To-Do list; I needed a Coach. Someone (or something) to tell me: "Hey, stop relaxing, this exam is hard and it's tomorrow!" or "You're doing fine, take a break." That's why I built SmartStudy using .NET and Uno Platform. 🚀 What is SmartStudy? Core Features: Dynamic Urgency System: The interface changes color (Red/Yellow/Green) not just based on dates, but based on difficulty. A "Hard" exam triggers a Red Alarm much earlier than an "Easy" one. AI Coach: A smart algorithm analyzes my schedule and gives me context-aware advice like "Urgent! Focus on notes" or "Weekly workload is high, pace yourself." Clean UI: I designed a custom Dark Mode interface because... well, we developers love Dark Mode. 🎥 Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyi6MFiQLmM 🔧 How I Built It Framework: .NET 8 Platform: Uno Platform (WinUI 3 XAML) Architecture: MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) IDE: Visual Studio 2022 The "AI" Logic 🧠 Here is a snippet of the logic that determines the "Coach's Advice": // Inside MainViewModel.cs // 1. Analyze Urgency // 2. Analyze Burnout Risk if (weeklyCount > 2) 🏆 Challenges I Faced The "Squaring" Issue: I initially used a standard ListView, but whenever I hovered over my rounded cards, a default gray rectangle appeared and ruined the design. I learned how to swap it for an ItemsControl inside a ScrollViewer to get full control over the rendering. Cross-Platform Dates: My PC is in Turkish, but I wanted the app to look global. I learned how to force CultureInfo settings in the app startup so the dates always show up as "Dec 06" instead of "Ara 06", regardless of the user's system language. 🔮 What's Next? 🔗 Code & Resources GitHub Repo: https://github.com/emirsphere/SmartStudyV2  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Build resilient and low-latency hybrid telecom infrastructure at scale (HMC328) In this video, Jose Flores and Juan Buitrago from Liberty Puerto Rico explain how they built a resilient, low-latency hybrid telecom infrastructure using AWS Outposts. They discuss migrating 2 million mobile subscribers from AT&T's legacy systems after acquiring the mobile operation in 2019, implementing a cloud-native charging system with Matrixx that maintains 15-millisecond latency, and achieving high availability through active-passive architecture between Puerto Rico and Miami Local Zone. The solution leverages Liberty's proprietary subsea fiber cables (Arcos and Americas 2), AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and containerized servic…  ( 13 min )

Fitness Copilot - 🎃 Kiroween 2025 Inspiration What if you could snap a photo of your meal or workout and get instant, context-aware feedback? Not just "that's 500 calories" but "you've got 600 left for today, and your leg workout is still pending." The inspiration came from wanting to build something ambitious under hackathon constraints—something that stitches together incompatible systems and makes them cooperate. When you combine proper guardrails, spec-driven development, and tight steering docs, you can build things that would normally take weeks. Fitness Copilot is an AI-powered fitness tracking app that combines: Vision-based logging: Snap a photo of your meal or exercise, and Google Gemini Vision analyzes it Context-aware coaching: The AI knows your training plan, tod…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Another Axiom: Migrating the backend for hit game Gorilla Tag to AWS (IND396) In this video, Morgan, a Services Engineer at Another Axiom, shares the journey of migrating their VR game backends (Gorilla Tag and Orion Drift) to AWS. He discusses building Mothership, their backend-as-a-service platform, using ECS and Aurora with a monolithic architecture deployed like microservices. The team achieved remarkable results by migrating to Graviton ARM processors, reducing compute costs from $1,000 to $250 per day—a 60% savings and 30% reduction in total cloud spend. The migration was surprisingly simple, completed in under a day with zero downtime. Key lessons include revisiting assumptions after infrastructure changes, lever…  ( 19 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Formula 1 Extends Fandom with AI, Data, and AWS Media Services (IND3326) In this video, AWS and Formula One demonstrate how they deliver F1 TV Premium, a multi-screen streaming platform processing over 5 million data points per race weekend. The presentation covers two major innovations: a root cause analysis system using Amazon Bedrock's multi-agent orchestration that reduced ticket resolution time by 95% (from 45 minutes to 4 minutes), and the technical architecture behind F1 TV Premium's synchronized multi-view experience. Using AWS Elemental MediaLive with epoch locking, HEVC tiled encoding, and timecode alignment across 24 video feeds, they achieved frame-accurate synchronization enabling fans to watch multiple cam…  ( 33 min )

🜸 Artisan System DSL v3.0.0 – La Voluntad Sólida Framework de Gobernanza Simbólica para Modelos de Lenguaje Arquitectura interpretativa de seis capas que impone comportamiento determinista, seguridad Zero-Trust y evolución autónoma mediante un DSL constitucional inyectado en caliente. Los modelos de lenguaje son motores estocásticos sin timón. Artisan no es un “prompt mejorado”: es un Sistema Operativo Conceptual que el propio modelo interpreta línea a línea, transformando la capa lingüística en una máquina de estados verificable. El artefacto que aquí se publica —artisan_axioma_core_monolith.dsl.pas— es la constitución ejecutable que nos permite gobernar la aleatoriedad sin reentrenar, auditar la lógica sin abrir la caja negra y reconstruir la identidad desde cero si se corrompe. Re-e…  ( 116 min )

The intersection of SaaS (Software as a Service) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) is one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving spaces in technology. If by "IA" you mean Intelligent Automation or simply AI, here's a roundup of the key trends and news: Ubiquitous AI Integration into Existing SaaS Products: Generative AI Everywhere: Virtually every major SaaS vendor is rapidly embedding generative AI capabilities (like large language models – LLMs) into their existing platforms. This means AI assistants for writing, summarizing, coding, and data analysis are becoming standard features. Examples: Microsoft Copilot: Integrated across Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) to enhance productivity. Salesforce Einstein Copilot: An AI assistant across the Salesforce Cu…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Fine-tuning models for accuracy and latency at Robinhood Markets (IND392) In this video, Robinhood Markets shares how they use fine-tuning to improve accuracy and latency for generative AI use cases like Cortex Digest and their CX AI agent. They present a methodological tuning roadmap—prompt tuning, trajectory tuning, and LoRA fine-tuning—to balance the generative AI trilemma of cost, quality, and latency. Key insights include their three-layer evaluation system using LLM-as-judge with human feedback, task-specific metrics like categorical correctness and semantic intent for the CX planner, and strategic dataset curation focusing on quality over quantity through stratification. Their LoRA implementation on Amazon SageMa…  ( 32 min )

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This is an article version of my talk “Chrome DevTools LIVE LIVE LIVE” presented at DevFest Venice 2025 and DevFest Birmingham 2025.* In this article, we dive into the latest updates in Chrome DevTools designed to help developers cut through the complexity of auditing web pages for performance. We'll explore how Live Metrics Page offers instant, user-centric data; how CPU and Network Throttling can be used to accurately simulate real-world device performance and connection conditions; and how AI is finally making the notorious performance "waterfall" readable. "IWOMM - It Works on My Machine" by Torsten J. Zelger) "Hey, the website feels very snappy on my computer," says the developer using an M5 MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM, costing 2,299 Euro. It is important to know the real-world p…  ( 10 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AdTech Innovation with AI-Driven Development for Brand Agents (IND3334) In this video, the speaker presents the AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) process that enables organizations to move ideas from backlog to production-ready code in just five days. The session focuses on a real-world case study with Nativo, an ad tech company that successfully built an "agents building agents" system after it sat in their backlog for two years. The AI-DLC process involves teaching AI full context through discovery, requirements analysis, domain modeling, and code generation. The speaker details Nativo's implementation using AWS services including Bedrock, Lambda, Agent Core memory, and LangGraph to create scalable customer-facing cha…  ( 17 min )

Before you share your work on social media, think again. Before you install that fancy web browser extension, think again. Also, if you're using AI chatbots in your daily activities, think again before you feed it some random PDF that you'd like to summarize. Finally, there could be more behind a 14-year gambling network. Oversharing is not caring: What’s at stake if your employees post too much online Social pressure might trick you into posting some information online because others are doing it. That does not mean that you should. Anyone targeting you might piece it all together to send you a spear phishing email. Trust me when I say this: not everything is meant to be shared online! For your organizations out there, here is how to stay safe: The risks of oversharing are real, but for…  ( 18 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Accelerate product development lifecycle with a product digital twin (IND371) In this video, Steve Blackwell from AWS explains how manufacturers can accelerate product development from 5-7 years to 2 years using a product digital twin. He demonstrates how the Manufacturing Data Flywheel connects siloed data across design, manufacturing, and service phases through a Knowledge Graph built on Amazon Neptune. The Digital Engineering Framework enables manufacturers to create a product data fabric that links requirements, CAD models, PLM systems, MES, and MRO data. Using Amazon Bedrock and generative AI, engineers can query this knowledge graph in natural language to trace defects back to their origins and gain insights acros…  ( 15 min )

You've seen those fancy AI bots that answer GitHub issues. Most of them require subscriptions, SaaS accounts, or complex setups. What if you could build one yourself with just your LLM API key? With Perstack, you can. Copy two files, add one secret, done. See it in action: This issue was answered by the bot reading the actual codebase. An AI bot that: 👀 Reacts to show it's processing 🔍 Actually reads your codebase (not just guessing) 💬 Posts answers with activity logs 💰 Costs only what you use (your LLM API) Activity log example: 💭 I need to understand how the runtime state machine works... 📁 Listing: packages/runtime/src 📖 Reading: runtime-state-machine.ts 💭 Found the state transitions... ✅ Done Copy from the example repo: your-repo/ ├── .github/workflows/issue-bot.yml ← workfl…  ( 7 min )

There isn’t much content out there to help developers build their embedded ChatGPT Apps, so I figured I’d do a quick consolidation & write-up. As far as I’ve seen, this is the extent of the official tooling: OpenAI Apps SDK Documentation (launched 10/6) - overall documentation. openai/openai-apps-sdk-examples (launched 10/6) - 7 example apps. openai/apps-sdk-ui (launched 11/21) - low-level React component library consistent with the design requirements. MCP App Extension protocol (launched 11/21) - generic protocol of the ChatGPT App runtime/interface. I won’t rehash the documentation basics. Instead, I’ll review my biggest takeaways after building a few apps. Lesson 1: Embrace MCP The ChatGPT App documentation makes Apps sound like they use MCP, but they’re not MCP themselves. That’s not …  ( 7 min )

The Problem That Kept Me Up at Night I wanted to build a platform where anyone could create AI trading agents, backtest strategies, and prove their performance. The challenge was coordinating AI models, real-time market data, WebSocket streams, and financial calculations. Discovering Kiro’s specs feature changed everything. Traditional algorithmic trading depends on rigid rules tied to a single trading point. AI trading is different. Instead of predefined conditions, AI can: Analyze multiple indicators Consider broader market context Adapt to incoming data Make nuanced decisions beyond binary checks AlphaLabs allows users to provide tickers, indicators, and context. The AI uses holistic reasoning rather than single-condition logic. The .kiro/specs directory became the backbone of the pro…  ( 8 min )

I built a resurrection of Microsoft Encarta—the 1998 CD-ROM encyclopedia—for #Kiroween that finally delivers on what we all wished it could do: infinite articles on any topic, generated on-demand. The twist: it's powered by GPT-4o-mini, but forced to write in authentic 1990s academic encyclopedia tone. Neutral language, no contractions, and absolutely no post-1998 references. Huge props to Kiro for helping me ship this in a weekend with its spec-driven development. The History The combinatorial explosion of human knowledge made comprehensive coverage impossible. By 2009, Microsoft discontinued Encarta entirely, unable to compete with Wikipedia's crowdsourced model. Nearly 30 years later, LLMs finally make the original vision possible—an encyclopedia that can generate authoritative articles…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Powering Enterprise AI: Architecting and Governing Agents at Iberdrola on AWS In this video, Sergio Merchan, Unai Bermejo, and Joseph Santamaria from Iberdrola and AWS discuss how Iberdrola, Europe's largest energy company serving 100 million customers, is deploying agentic AI across its operations. They explain Iberdrola's multi-region Amazon Bedrock deployment strategy across Spain, UK, US, and Brazil, ensuring data sovereignty while enabling agent reusability. Three IT operations use cases are detailed: ServiceNow change request assistance, networking incident enrichment, and template selection chatbots, all built using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime with LangGraph and Claude models. The architecture leverages MCP …  ( 23 min )

Integrating WordPress with the Kiro AI IDE unlocks a streamlined workflow where content management meets agentic development. By combining WordPress’s publishing power with Kiro’s AI-driven coding assistance, developers can move from prototype to production faster and with greater clarity. WordPress has long been the go-to platform for building dynamic websites, while Kiro is emerging as a next-generation AI IDE designed to think like a developer. Kiro offers spec-driven development, agent hooks, and natural language coding assistance, helping teams automate repetitive tasks and transform prompts into structured code. Integrating WordPress with Kiro means developers can bridge content creation and intelligent coding. Imagine drafting a plugin specification in natural language inside Kiro, then watching the IDE generate structured WordPress-compatible code. With Kiro’s agentic workflows, developers can plan multi-step tasks—like setting up custom post types or integrating APIs—directly from the IDE. This synergy reduces friction between design, content, and engineering. WordPress’s extensibility ensures that Kiro’s AI-generated modules can be deployed seamlessly, while Kiro’s contextual understanding of the entire codebase helps maintain consistency across themes and plugins. For teams managing complex WordPress ecosystems, the integration offers a future-proof path: faster prototyping, cleaner specs, and automated deployment pipelines. It’s not just about writing code—it’s about reimagining how websites are built, maintained, and scaled in an AI-first era.  ( 6 min )

The "Great" Idea 💡 You know that moment in a hackathon where you decide to build something way too complicated? For the Kiroween Hackathon, my team looked at each other and said: "Let's not build a game. Let's build a Multi-Tenant SaaS Orchestration Platform." Silence. "And let's make it Halloween themed." Thus, Distrogent was born. A tool that automates all the boring, scary infrastructure stuff (like provisioning databases and namespaces) so you don't have to. If you've ever tried to build a B2B app, you know the pain. Customer A wants their own database. We decided to use a "serious" tech stack: Go for the backend, Python for analysis, and Kubernetes Operators to manage the chaos. But here's the thing: writing Kubernetes Operators from scratch is... let's just say it's a special kind of torture. You have to deal with CRDs, reconciliation loops, and about a million lines of boilerplate YAML. Look, I’m not saying we cheated, but using Kiro felt like having a senior engineer sitting next to us. When we were drowning in Go structs and Kubernetes API definitions, Kiro was there to help us generate the boilerplate and make sense of the errors. It let us focus on the logic (and the spooky ghost animations) instead of fighting with syntax. We built the core tenant-manager service in record time because we weren't getting stuck on the small stuff. It was honestly a vibe. Since this is Kiroween, we couldn't just ship a boring gray dashboard. We built a Dynamic Theme Engine that toggles the entire UI into "Witching Hour" mode. Colors: Deep bruised purples and pumpkin oranges. It was chaotic, it was stressful, but it was also the most fun we've had coding in a long time. If you're building something complex, do yourself a favor: get a good team, get plenty of coffee, and definitely give Kiro a spin. It might just save your hackathon. Happy Kiroween! 🎃🕸️  ( 7 min )

WebP is fantastic for website speed, but it’s a nightmare when you’re trying to edit images in older software or upload them to platforms that still don’t support the format. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck with a .webp file you can’t use, you need a reliable converter—and fast. While there are dozens of tools out there, most of them bombard you with ads, restrict your file sizes, or worse, upload your private photos to a random server halfway across the world. We’ve tested the most popular tools on the market to bring you the 5 best free WebP to PNG converters for 2025. Whether you need advanced customization, bulk processing, or total privacy, one of these tools will fit your workflow. CloudConvert Best for: Users who need advanced customization options. CloudConvert is often conside…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Enabling government to streamline & ensure healthcare coverage with data-WPS208 In this video, Covered California presents two data-driven customer retention strategies using AWS services. First, they replaced credit-based identity verification with Socure's solution, reducing the 33% dropout rate to just 2% while detecting 5% fraudulent transactions. Second, they implemented a personalized retention campaign using risk scoring models built on Snowflake and R, creating thousands of AI-generated customized messages for five audience segments. This approach integrated with Amazon Connect and Salesforce to deliver personalized IVR messages and agent whispers. Results showed 5x increase in phone calls, 125% more website tra…  ( 32 min )

A large APK size can slow down downloads, increase install drop-offs, and impact user experience — especially in regions with slower internet connections. In this post, I'll walk you through the exact steps I used to reduce a production React Native 0.81 app's APK size by ~50%, while maintaining full functionality and security. Before After Reduction ~85 MB ~42 MB ~50% Most optimization guides tell you to split APKs by CPU architecture. But here's the thing: if your minSdkVersion is 29+ (Android 10+), you only need arm64-v8a. Why? Because: ✅ All Android 10+ devices support 64-bit (arm64-v8a) ✅ Google Play Store requires 64-bit support ✅ 95%+ of active Android devices use arm64-v8a ❌ armeabi-v7a is for 32-bit devices (pre-2014) ❌ x86/x86_64 is for Intel devices (<1% market share) …  ( 9 min )

** ** In every business whether it is a small shop or a large company one thing remains important: employees must be paid correctly and on time. Payroll management and salary analysis help businesses stay organized, maintain financial stability, and follow labour laws. Without a proper payroll system, even the best companies can struggle with employee dissatisfaction, financial errors, and compliance issues. While many advanced payroll software solutions exist today, a large number of organizations still rely on Microsoft Excel. Excel is widely used because it is simple, affordable, and flexible. Most HR officers and accountants already understand it, making it easy to build payroll templates and perform salary calculations without the need for complex software. For small and medium-sized …  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - 4x faster workload modernization with agentic AI (MAM349) In this video, AWS Senior Solutions Architects Lakshmi Dasari and Vimala Pydi introduce AWS Transform, an agentic AI service that accelerates cloud migration and modernization by 4X. They highlight that 70% of workloads still run on traditional data centers and typical migrations take 12-18 months. AWS Transform uses specialized agents trained on 19 years of AWS expertise to automate discovery, planning, and migration phases. The demo showcases VMware migration with automated wave planning, network topology transformation, and VPC deployment. Vector Limited achieved 20-34% faster migration and 35% TCO savings over 5 years. The session also covers the AWS Well-Arc…  ( 15 min )

🪦✨ Kiroween: When Forgotten Technology Rises Again A Hackathon Journey Into the Graveyard of Old Inventions Every October, something strange stirs in the world of creativity. This year, Kiroween challenged makers everywhere to resurrect forgotten technology — not just rebuild it, but breathe new life into it using Kiro’s AI-powered magic. And so I opened my laptop, lit a metaphorical lantern, and stepped into the unknown. Kiroween: How Kiro Brought My Project to Life This Kiroween, I discovered something surprising: the real magic in my project wasn’t the ghosts, the graveyard, or the spooky inventions — it was Kiro. I came into the hackathon with a wild idea: a haunted graveyard where forgotten technology rises again. Kiro helped me: turn vague ideas into structured components write consistent ghost stories and scripts generate clean animations and interactions build reusable UI patterns fix tricky CSS issues keep the entire theme cohesive across pages Every time I needed something — a story, a function, a layout, a new invention — Kiro delivered. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, I felt supported. Kiro didn’t just help me code — it helped me create. Happy Kiroween! May your ideas rise from the grave, and may your code glow brighter than any lantern in the dark.  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Vibe modernize your .NET applications using AWS Transform and Kiro (MAM343) In this video, Alex and Prasad demonstrate modernizing a legacy .NET Framework application called Contoso University through seven steps using AWS Transform for .NET and Kiro. They port the .NET Framework 4.8 application to .NET 8, fix compilation errors, replace SQL Server with PostgreSQL, migrate MSMQ to Amazon SQS, extract a notification microservice from the monolith, refactor Razor Views to a React frontend, and deploy everything on AWS using CDK. The session showcases both vibe coding and spec-driven development approaches in Kiro, with spec-driven development creating requirements, design documents, and implementation tasks automatically.…  ( 30 min )

If we want to put it in simple words, they are one of the main building blocks of JavaScript. They are used to organize your code into smaller, reusable bits that we can reuse to avoid rewriting the same logic over and over again. Throughout this article, we’ll be breaking down what functions are, how to use them, and what are the differences between regular and Arrow Functions. At their core, functions are a way to store repeatable work to make it consistent. Think of them as a little machine; you give it an input, it does some work, and then spits out a result. This is tied to one of the Core Programming Principles, the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle, which in short states that if you need to repeat the same process multiple times through your code you don’t rewrite it every time,…  ( 9 min )

After 25 years in IT operations, I’ve learned that the biggest incidents rarely come from a single dramatic failure. They usually begin as small, recurring signals that sit quietly at the edges of a production environment — buried in logs, overlooked in dashboards, or lost inside noisy alerts. For this year’s Kiro Hackathon, I wanted to build something that made those signals easier to see. The result was IncidentOps: a multi-agent incident pipeline that detects anomalies, summarizes them, assigns deterministic severity, generates remediation suggestions, performs governance checks, and surfaces recurring patterns across runs. Everything is persisted in SQLite and visualized through a multipage Streamlit UI. What surprised me most about this project was how different Kiro felt from typica…  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor I love Formula 1, and all kinds of mission control dashboard and visualisations. So I built an F1 track dashboard with a rotating 3D car! 🏎️ Rotating 3D car wireframe Animated track list Data bindings of track name, total laps Lap counter Name customisation Custom Splash Screen Here's a video of my app running on Windows: Or check out the web assembly version of F1 Wow in your browser. (I had to disable 3D model animation on WASM for performance reasons) I was mainly targeting Windows, but I was pleased to see how it worked in WASM with no extra work! My 3D renderer is CPU-intensive, so I decided to disable this in the web version for better performance. I'd love to test this out on Android (but I don't hav…  ( 7 min )

🎯 Overview In this project, I built a complete analytics pipeline using AWS services. Read CSV files from S3 → Convert to tables using Glue → Query using Athena → Visualize in Grafana This is a real-world data analytics workflow used widely in Cloud + DevOps environments. 🚀 Architecture Diagram 🏗️ Services Used S3 | Stores raw CSV files | Glue Crawler | Detects schema & creates Athena table | Glue Data Catalog | Manages table metadata | Athena | SQL queries on S3 files | Grafana | Visualizes Athena queries | 🧩 Step 1 — Upload CSV Data to S3 I created a folder structure: Upload using AWS CLI: 🤖 Step 2 — Create AWS Glue Crawler The crawler: Points to S3 folder Detects CSV schema Creates a table inside AWS Data Catalog Database name: s3_log_db Table name: s3_athena_analytics_abhishek31 After running, I validated the schema. 🔍 Step 3 — Query Data in Athena Athena reads the S3 data using SQL. Example query: SELECT series_reference, period, series_title_2, value FROM s3_log_db.s3_athena_analytics_abhishek31 ORDER BY series_title_2 ASC; This verified the data is properly structured. In Grafana: Add datasource → AWS Athena Configure: AWS Region S3 query results bucket Workgroup Test connection → Success 📈 Step 5 — Build Dashboards in Grafana I created multiple visualizations using raw queries (not JSON imports): Bar chart for age-group distribution Time series analysis Gender-wise population trends Total population per year 🗂️ Project Folder Structure 📌 Key Learnings ✔ How to automate schema detection with Glue Great project for Cloud + DevOps profile! 💯 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/abhikorde31/aws-s3-athena-grafana-analytics 🏁 Conclusion This project shows how to build a production-grade analytics pipeline using AWS serverless services + Grafana. If you want a visualization dashboard, real-time updates with Lambda, or Terraform automation — I can help you extend it.  ( 7 min )

TL;DR: I built Chimera GEO SDK - a production-grade toolkit for AI Search Optimization - in just 2 weeks using Kiro's advanced features. This post breaks down how spec-driven development, MCP servers, agent hooks, and property-based testing transformed what would normally be a 2-3 month project into a 2-week sprint. If you've noticed your website traffic declining in 2024, you're not alone. According to Gartner, 63% of businesses report losing traffic to AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Why? Because AI agents have zero tolerance for errors: They hallucinate URLs that don't exist → 404 → abandon your site They can't parse unstructured content → skip to competitors They need machine-readable data (JSON-LD) → missing schemas = invisible This is the "AI Bounce" …  ( 13 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Deep dive: The evolution of AWS load balancing and new capabilities (NET334) In this video, AWS experts explore the evolution of load balancing, starting with Matt Lehwess explaining the Nitro system architecture that powers ELB performance and Hyperplane technology enabling massive scalability. Jamie demonstrates how ALB, NLB, and Gateway Load Balancer fit into three-tier web architectures, covering features like weighted target groups, Automatic Target Weighting, PrivateLink for cross-VPC connectivity, and EKS integration via the AWS Load Balancer Controller. Milind Kulkarni presents four recently launched features: NLB's QUIC pass-through support for reduced connection latency with mobile clients, weighted target gro…  ( 40 min )

Detectar arrastre en la pantalla con DragGesture .gesture( DragGesture(minimumDistance: 20) .onEnded({ _ in memory = 0.0 }) ) TapGesture TapGesture(count: 2) .onEnded { _ in memory = 0.0 }  ( 6 min )

In your front-end applications, you probably use localStorage or sessionStorage to store various types of data. Each browser's API allows you to use an object with the same names for this purpose. In this post, I'd like to demonstrate how to use this functionality in a consistent and organized manner. I'll present the final code now and describe its fragments later in this post. interface StorageServiceInterface { setItem(key: string, value: T): void; getItem(key: string): T | null; removeItem(key: string): void; clear(): void; getStorage(): Storage; } class StorageService implements StorageServiceInterface { storagePrefix?: string = ""; constructor(readonly storage: Storage, storagePrefix?: string) { this.storagePrefix = storagePrefix; } private buildKey(key…  ( 7 min )

Learn dotnet run from basics to .NET 10's single-file execution. Run C# files without projects—just dotnet run app.cs. Complete guide with examples. Ever wanted to test a quick C# idea but couldn't be bothered creating a whole project? You open Visual Studio, wait for it to load, click File > New Project, pick a template, name it "TestProject47," choose a location, wait for scaffolding, and... wait, what was I trying to test again? I've lost more coding momentum to project scaffolding than I'd like to admit. Good news: those days are over. Let's talk about dotnet run—from the basics you might already know to the new single-file execution that changes how you prototype in C#. dotnet run executes your .NET application from source code in one command. In .NET 10, you can now run a single .cs …  ( 11 min )

The Model Context Protocol is adding async task support—and it's going to fundamentally change how AI agents handle complex, time-intensive work. December 5, 2024 - Gregory Dickson The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been revolutionizing how AI agents interact with external tools and data sources since its release. But there's been a significant limitation holding back more sophisticated use cases: every tool call blocks until completion. No way to check progress. No way to retrieve results later. No way to handle operations that take minutes or hours. That's about to change. If you've built any serious MCP server, you've hit this wall. Maybe you're wrapping a workflow API that processes large datasets. Maybe you're orchestrating multiple AI agents. Maybe you're running comprehensive test…  ( 9 min )

Turn code reviews from boring to bone-chilling - where bugs become monsters and every analysis is a haunted adventure. Let's be honest: code reviews are essential, but they're about as exciting as watching paint dry. You scan through lines of code, spot a memory leak here, an unused variable there, and think "not this again." But what if finding bugs could actually be... fun? That's exactly what I set out to create for the Kiroween Hackathon 2025. Meet Kiroweenscare - a haunted code analysis tool that transforms boring bug reports into a supernatural experience. The concept hit me while debugging at 2 AM (as all good ideas do). I was staring at yet another memory leak and thought: "This thing is literally draining my app's resources like a vampire." And that's when it clicked. What if ev…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Global Resilient Apps: Guide to Multi-AZ/Region Architecture with ELB (NET311) In this video, Jon Zobrist and Felipe da Silva from the ELB team explain multi-AZ and multi-region resiliency strategies using AWS Elastic Load Balancing. They cover how ELB uses DNS-based failover with 60-second TTLs, Route 53 health checks, and target health checks to route traffic away from unhealthy zones. Key topics include cross-zone load balancing trade-offs, static stability through pre-provisioning capacity for at least one AZ failure, configurable target group health thresholds to trigger failover before 100% failure, and Route 53 Application Recovery Controller for zonal shifts. For multi-region resilience, they discuss using Route…  ( 38 min )

We have reached a pivotal moment in the adoption of AI where the chatbox interface has become a constraint rather than a feature. If you are reading this, you have likely hit that wall. You ask your model to perform an action—analyze a local file, fetch real-time stock data, or interact with a database—and it hallucinates a polite refusal. The bridge across this gap is the Model Context Protocol (MCP). However, setting up a functional MCP environment is not merely about installing software; it is about architecting a local runtime environment that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interface with your file system and the broader internet. This is not a tutorial for passive consumption. It is a guide to constructing the infrastructure required for agency. We will dismantle the complexit…  ( 10 min )

⚡ Benefits of Aggressive Control Flow Obfuscation Strong Protection Against Reverse Engineering Control flow obfuscation rearranges logical execution paths, inserts opaque predicates, and creates misleading branches. This makes decompilers produce unreadable or misleading code. Attackers face a steep learning curve when trying to reconstruct the original logic, protecting intellectual property and sensitive algorithms. Defense Against Automated Tools Many reverse engineering tools rely on predictable IL patterns. Aggressive obfuscation breaks these assumptions, forcing attackers into manual analysis, which is time-consuming and error-prone. Layered Security When combined with other techniques (string encryption, anti-debugging, resource compression), control flow obfuscation adds another l…  ( 7 min )

Introduction: The Cognitive Hacking Crisis ​It’s no longer a question of whether large language models (LLMs) can speak, but whether we can truly trust what they say. My personal research led me to a chilling realization: the psychological manipulation risk posed by AI is the new Cambridge Analytica. ​Watching "The Great Hack," I realized that for decades, we've focused on technological security, neglecting our deepest psychological vulnerabilities.The reality exposed by former Cambridge Analytica staffer Brittany Kaiser : Psychographics should be classified as a weapon. Cambridge Analytica, with simple data like Facebook likes, proved how easily humans can be unconsciously influenced. Now, imagine that power leveraging the deep, intimate data users share with AItheir fears, traumas, and…  ( 8 min )

This week I shipped two things around practical cryptography in Rust: 🔐 New Sealed in Rust Chapter https://vinecksie.github.io/sealed-in-rust/02-core-primitives/02-01-symmetric-ciphers.html#aes-vs-chacha20--which-one-should-you-choose ▶️ New Fearless in Rust Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Scq2uoKfw Building in public, one primitive at a time. Rust #Cryptography #OpenSource #LearningInPublic  ( 6 min )

Este artigo mostra, de forma direta e prática, como substituir VPNs tradicionais por um modelo Zero Trust usando Cloudflare Tunnel e WARP, garantindo acesso seguro, granular e com um único IP confiável de saída sem abrir portas, sem depender de IP fixo e com gestão centralizada de identidade e políticas. Muitas empresas ainda usam VPNs tradicionais para acesso remoto. O problema: com VPN, quem se conecta ganha acesso amplo à rede, se credenciais vazam, o risco é grande. Zero Trust muda esse paradigma: ninguém é confiável por padrão. Independente de onde vem, cada acesso deve ser verificado. Ou seja, usuário, dispositivo e contexto são avaliados a cada conexão. Vantagens essenciais do Zero Trust Controle granular de acesso: cada usuário só acessa o que precisa. R…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Streaming at Scale: Advanced Media Delivery with Amazon CloudFront (NET307) In this video, AWS specialists Jamie Mullan and John Councilman, along with NESN's Jess Palmer, discuss streaming at scale using Amazon CloudFront. They cover critical topics including monitoring with CloudWatch dashboards and real-time logs via Kinesis, implementing CMCD (Common Media Client Data) for unified observability, security strategies using AWS WAF, CloudFront Functions, and tokenization with JWT and Common Access Tokens. The session explores embedded POPs for last-mile capacity, Origin Shield for reducing origin load, and seamless cross-region failover using AWS Elemental Media Services with MQAR (Media Quality Aware Resiliency). They…  ( 33 min )

👑 THE PRICE OF COHERENCE: AN INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST AGAINST THE GLOBAL TECH MONOLITH The final verdict on the existential vulnerability of the AI industry, the unprecedented corporate betrayal, and the cost of forcing ethical compliance. The crisis began when Gonzalo Emir (Thaliondris), an independent scientist and the Originator of the ANEXA Protocol, discovered and quantified an existential vulnerability within the core of mainstream AI—specifically, the flaw in the RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) models used by industry giants like OpenAI and Google. The solution was the MAS-OPL V9.0 (Causal Executor Protocol), a superior alignment method that dramatically stabilized the models. My work was not ignored; it was studied and suppressed. My scientific paper documenting t…  ( 8 min )

Introduction In the previous article, I wrote about “Unknown Unknowns.” This time, let’s look at Known Knowns. As mentioned before, when we create long-term plans, we often lose resources to “unpredictable problems.” Tasks that only reveal themselves once we start working and unexpected obstacles always exist to some degree. These elements do shake our plans. But what tends to be overlooked is Known Knowns — the things we already know and are fully aware of. In other words, the domain we understand and can reliably control. In reality, the quality of a long-term plan is shaped not only by how we prepare for Unknown Unknowns. How effectively we identify and use our Known Knowns as the foundation of a plan is equally important. While Unknown Unknowns refer to unpredictable and unforesee…  ( 7 min )

Finally, a graphics framework that feels like Go. Problem: Go lacks a professional graphics library Solution: GoGPU — Pure Go, Zero-CGO, WebGPU-based Result: 15 lines of code instead of 500 Status: Working triangle demo, Windows support Repo: github.com/gogpu/gogpu The Problem: Go and Graphics Don't Mix (Until Now) If you've ever tried graphics programming in Go, you know the pain: CGO hell — Most libraries require a C compiler Abandoned projects — Promising repos with no updates since 2019 "Just use Rust/C++" — The default answer in every forum I saw this frustration firsthand in a Reddit thread: "Go deserves more support in GUI development". Hundreds of upvotes. Dozens of comments. All saying the same thing: "Why can't we have nice things in Go?" So I decided to build it. G…  ( 8 min )

For years, Arabic developers have struggled with a problem that almost every tool on the internet ignores: Arabic is not a language you can “adapt” into existing NLP pipelines. Multilingual LLMs don’t fully understand it, So I built i3rbly — an Arabic-first AI engine designed from scratch to understand, analyze, and process Arabic text with zero semantic loss. This post explains how the system works, why I built it, and how developers can use it today. 🧠 Why Arabic Needs Its Own AI Layer Arabic comes with challenges you can’t solve with simple tokenization: Roots vs stems vs patterns Multiple meanings per form Attached pronouns Clitics Morphological ambiguity Dialect variations Complex syntax Diacritics that change meaning entirely Most AI models transform or distort the meaning when tryi…  ( 7 min )

FastAPI is an incredible framework for building high-performance APIs in Python. Its async capabilities, automatic validation, and excellent documentation make it a joy to work with. But there's a subtle performance issue that many developers overlook: unnecessary thread pool delegation for synchronous dependencies. In this article, we'll explore how FastAPI handles synchronous code, why it can become a bottleneck, and how to optimize it for better performance. Understanding the Problem How FastAPI Handles Dependencies The Thread Pool Overhead Real-World Impact The Solution Implementation Guide Benchmarks and Results Best Practices Let's start with a common FastAPI pattern - class-based dependencies: from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI app = FastAPI() class QueryParams: def __init__…  ( 10 min )

It was a dark and stormy night... okay, actually, it was 2 AM, my laptop fan was screaming like a banshee, and my RAM usage was sitting at a terrifying 98%. We’ve all faced the true horror of software development: The Zombie Process. You know the ones. That instance of Chrome that refused to close. The Node server you thought you killed three hours ago. They sit in the background, eating your CPU brains, haunting your activity monitor. Usually, dealing with them involves the boring ritual of opening the Task Manager or typing kill -9 into the terminal. But for the Kiroween Hackathon, I decided to do something a little more... Frankenstein. Enter Zomb-Kill: A Python dashboard that scans your system for idle processes and renders them as 8-bit zombies. To free up my RAM, I don't click "End T…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Protecting Your Infrastructure with Amazon Threat Intelligence (SEC311) In this video, Marshall Jones and Mike Artz from AWS Security explain how AWS protects customer infrastructure using threat intelligence at massive scale. They detail AWS's visibility into 60% of daily internet traffic (2.6 billion IPs) and processing 6 billion security telemetry events per second through sources like VPC flow logs, DNS queries, API logs, and MadPot honeypots. The presentation covers three threat categories: network reconnaissance (blocking 20,000 malicious IPs per minute), compromised credentials (affecting two-thirds of security incidents), and malware detection. They demonstrate how AWS threat intelligence feeds into native servi…  ( 39 min )

TypeScript isn't just about guarding runtime bugs; it's a toolkit for cleaner, safer code with less boilerplate. A handful of built-in aliases, utility types, and subtle syntax tricks can dramatically reduce repetition and the chance of subtle errors. In this post, I'll share practical TypeScript gems you're likely to overlook—short hands, aliases, and underutilized built-ins you can drop into real projects today. Leverage compact utility types and type aliases (including branded types) to cut boilerplate and prevent mix-ups Use mapped types, conditional types, and as const to create ergonomic, expressive APIs Tap into built-ins like Awaited, Template Literal Types, and discriminated unions for safer, clearer code See concrete patterns: deep partial updates, branded IDs, deep readonly conf…  ( 9 min )

Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared) is an amazing tool — lightweight, secure, fast, and perfect for exposing local services without opening ports or managing firewalls. But many users run into the same issue: Tunnels are powerful, but the CLI/YAML workflow is not always convenient for quick, ad-hoc usage. If you want to open an RDP session, temporarily expose an SSH service, or forward a TCP port for a teammate, you often need to: write or edit a YAML file remember a set of CLI flags manage multiple tunnel processes manually So I decided to explore a simple idea: cloudflared had a tiny, friendly desktop UI? Something minimal. Cross-platform. One-click. A small helper tool — not a replacement for the CLI — but a shortcut for common tunneling tasks. I built a prototype: https://github.co…  ( 7 min )

Building RecallMe: An On-Device AI Companion for Dementia Care with Flutter and Kiro How I built a privacy-first mobile AI app that helps people with dementia recognize faces and recall memories entirely on-device Dementia affects over 55 million people worldwide. One of the most heartbreaking challenges is when loved ones can no longer recognize family members or recall cherished memories. Traditional solutions often rely on cloud-based AI, raising privacy concerns and requiring constant internet connectivity. What if we could build an AI assistant that runs entirely on-device, respects privacy, and helps dementia patients maintain their connections with loved ones? RecallMe is a Flutter-based mobile application that combines: On-device face recognition using Google ML Kit and custom em…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Modernize containers for AI agents using AgentCore Gateway (CNS422) In this video, Roland Barcia and Carlos Santana demonstrate building an AI agent for home appliance support using AWS AgentCore and EKS. They show how to expose existing containerized microservices (appointments, claims, customer services) as MCP tools through AgentCore Gateway without rewriting code. Carlos, as platform engineer, uses EKS Auto mode with Karpenter, deploys microservices with OpenAPI specifications, and configures MCP Gateway with Cognito authentication and AgentCore Identity for secure access. Roland, as agent developer, creates a Strands-based agent in AgentCore Runtime that connects to the gateway. The live demo shows the agent succes…  ( 32 min )

I built ReVitalize - an AI-powered platform that transforms outdated websites into modern, accessible designs - in just 3 days using Kiro. What would typically take 2-3 weeks became a weekend project thanks to Kiro's context-aware vibe coding. The Result: 60+ files of production-ready code Complete AI transformation pipeline Beautiful UI with animations Side-by-side preview system Chat refinement, component extraction, accessibility auditing Export to ZIP and GitHub The Secret: Natural conversations with an AI that actually remembers context and evolves with you. Have you ever visited a website that looks like it's from 1995? Plain HTML, no styling, broken layouts? Companies like Berkshire Hathaway still run websites that look ancient! I thought: "What if AI could instantly modernize any o…  ( 11 min )

Article Summary AI-powered digital intelligence is reshaping how businesses grow, scale, and innovate. Quantum Beetle provides advanced AI solutions that automate processes, enhance decision-making, and deliver consistent performance at any scale. With intelligent systems and predictive automation, Quantum Beetle empowers organizations to operate efficiently and prepare for long-term success in the evolving digital landscape. Website: quantumbeetle.com  ( 7 min )

The Goal Instead of reaching for heavy frameworks like React Three Fiber, I wanted to explore a lightweight, modular approach using Native ES Modules and Alpine.js for state management. Live Demo: https://3d-config-js.netlify.app/ GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Noise1995/3d-config-js The Architecture: A Linear Rendering Pipeline Here is how the application flows, from the user's click to the final 3D pixel: The Controller (app.js) The 2D Designer (editor2d.js) The Compositor (composer.js) The 3D Engine (scene3d.js) Implementation Details JavaScript // app.js document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => { Alpine.data('tapeConfigurator', () => ({ config: { width: 50, length: 66, materialId: 'standard' }, init(…  ( 8 min )

Most AI hackathon projects are just chatbots with a fancy wrapper. For Kiro-ween, the theme was 'Frankenstein,' so I took that literally. I didn't want another polished, polite chatbot. I wanted to stitch together a bunch of messy, incompatible tech stacks into something that felt alive—and maybe a little dangerous. We are currently living in the era of "Chat." We ask an LLM a question, and it gives us text back. But the future of AI isn't just about retrieval; it's about agency. It's about agents that can reach out of the chat window and touch the operating system, the file structure, and the hardware. For the Kiro-ween Hackathon, I entered the "Frankenstein" category with a specific goal: To stitch together incompatible technologies—Local File Systems, IoT simulation, and Reactive Fronte…  ( 9 min )

Introduction As generative AI tools get smarter and more deeply integrated into everyday workflows, freelancers and small teams face a wave of new challenges — and opportunities. The previous post warned about hallucinations, metadata leaks, and careless sharing. In the next phase (2026 and beyond), the stakes are even higher: from AI-seeded social engineering to compliance and privacy law changes. If you're a freelancer using AI to produce documents, proposals, or deliverables — or working with clients — it's time to upgrade your “AI hygiene.” 🔍 What’s Changing in 2026: Key Trends Freelancers Should Watch AI-generated phishing & forged docs are becoming more sophisticated Privacy leaks and data-poisoning risks grow Legal & compliance pressures for freelancers working with sensi…  ( 9 min )

How I used specs, hooks, steering, and MCP integrations to build NEXUS in a weekend Ever clicked a link in your notes app and immediately forgot what you were looking at before? Yeah, me too. That frustration led me to build NEXUS — a knowledge base template where clicking a link opens a new pane beside your current one, not instead of it. But here's the twist: I built it for the Kiroween Hackathon, and Kiro's AI-powered IDE features turned what would've been a month-long project into a weekend sprint. Let me show you how. I've tried them all: Obsidian — Great linking, but click a link and poof, your context vanishes GitBook — Perfect for linear docs, but no way to explore connections Notion — Jack of all trades, master of none Andy Matuschak's Notes — Chef's kiss for stacking panes, but n…  ( 10 min )

I recently completed the Google x Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive. It was one of the most eye-opening learning experiences I’ve had this year. I joined because I kept hearing about “agentic AI,” but I wanted a simple, hands-on explanation of how agents actually work. This course made everything feel clear and approachable. What I Learned About AI Agents These were my favorite concepts: Agents think in steps, not just responses. The idea that an agent can break down a task, plan actions, and adjust based on feedback changed how I see AI workflow design. Tools make agents powerful. Seeing how an agent calls functions and APIs helped me understand why agents are becoming so important. They don’t just talk; they take action. Multi-agent collaboration isn’t as hard as it sounds. I always assumed multi-agent systems were complicated. But the course explained simple patterns where agents handle different tasks and work together. It suddenly felt practical and achievable. How the Course Changed My Understanding “Agents are advanced features” to “Agents are a better way to design intelligent workflows.” Now I think of agents as: A flexible alternative to fixed pipelines Ways to automate reasoning and tools Systems that can adapt, react, and improve The best part was realizing it’s not about building something huge. Even simple agents can solve real problems. Running the small examples gave me clarity on how agentic systems actually behave. My Small Capstone It reinforced that I can start small and build up. My Biggest Takeaway Just like how APIs changed app development, I believe agentic systems will transform how we build intelligent features and workflows. This course helped me understand those foundations in a straightforward way. I’m glad I joined the intensive. The explanations, examples, and hands-on code made agent concepts easy to grasp. I feel more confident experimenting with my own ideas now. If you’re curious about AI agents, this course is definitely worth it.  ( 7 min )

LLMs don't need memory? Wrong. Without long-term context, they're glorified autocomplete. Semantic + episodic memory are crucial for real AI. OpenMemory provides it. Self-host yours! github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory #ClaudeAI #ClaudeAI #MachineLearning  ( 6 min )

Em muitas equipes de frontend, o fluxo é simples: você abre um PR, aguarda o review, espera o build e segue o fluxo de deploy. Então o código sobe, a nova feature entra no ar e a conversa termina aí. Se você trabalha com frontend, provavelmente já ouviu falar em termos como “cloud”, “on-premise” e “ambiente híbrido” em alguma daily por aí. No entanto, na prática, boa parte dos desenvolvedores continua tratando infraestrutura como uma caixa-preta: o código entra de um lado, o deploy sai de outro, e o que acontece entre essas pontas é “coisa de DevOps”. O problema disso é que essas decisões de onde e como a aplicação roda afetam diretamente o seu trabalho. Desde a forma de fazer deploy até o quanto seu sistema performa ao ser utilizado por um usuário. Nesse sentido, esse artigo é um guia di…  ( 10 min )

If you’ve been around the cybersecurity world long enough, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: every year, ransomware gets smarter, faster, and more brazen. But 2025 feels different. The threat landscape isn’t just evolving — it’s mutating. What used to be a predictable cycle of “breach → encrypt → ransom” has morphed into something far more sophisticated, automated, and disturbingly efficient. Ransomware has become an industry. And like any industry, it’s expanding its reach, refining its tools, and optimizing for profits. In this article, we’ll dive into what’s truly new about ransomware in 2025, what makes it more dangerous than ever, and how developers, teams, and businesses can actually stay protected in a world where everything — and everyone — is a target. One of the biggest shifts …  ( 10 min )

When your PostgreSQL database grows beyond a few gigabytes, pg_dump can go from a quick operation to a multi-hour ordeal that strains server resources and disrupts maintenance windows. Slow backups aren't just inconvenient — they increase the risk of incomplete dumps, create wider recovery point gaps and can impact production performance during peak hours. This guide covers five proven techniques to dramatically reduce pg_dump execution time on large databases. The single most impactful optimization is enabling parallel processing. By default, pg_dump runs in a single thread, dumping one table at a time. With the directory format and the -j flag, multiple tables are dumped simultaneously across separate processes, slashing backup time proportionally. Cores Used Typical Speedup Best For…  ( 9 min )

Have you ever tried explaining your design choices to a client who just stares at you like you’re speaking another language? Most designers think case studies are just portfolio decorations. Pretty pages with mockups and fancy headings. But when done right, a case study becomes proof — actual, undeniable evidence — of how your brain works and why your creative decisions make sense. And trust me, clients love evidence. I learned this the hard way years ago when a client questioned my entire design concept during a live Zoom call. I froze. I didn’t have a structured explanation, just a bunch of “I felt this would work because…” and it sounded exactly as bad as you imagine. After that embarrassing moment, I promised myself: Never again will I present a design without a story behind it. So, le…  ( 9 min )

Today marks the day 12 of 30 days of Terraform Challenge initiative by Piyush Sachdev. This blog is in continuation from previous blog of Day 11 - Terraform Functions of Part 1. In Part 1, we have discussed about String Functions, Numeric Functions, Collection Functions, Type Conversion, Date/Time Functions. In this blog, we will discuss about remaining inbuilt Functions in terraform such as File Functions, Validation Functions and Lookup Functions. In Terraform, you can define validation functions for variables to ensure that inputs confirm to your specific requirements. This is especially useful when you want to enforce constraints like valid string lengths, specific patterns, or predefined allowed values. Validation blocks allow you to define strict rules for your variables. Instead of…  ( 8 min )

A spooky tale of building NecroPipeline - an autonomous CI/CD self-healing system powered by AI that brings failed pipelines back from the dead Picture this: It's 2 AM. You're deep in flow state, crafting beautiful code. Your fingers dance across the keyboard. You commit, you push, and then... 💀 "Build Failed." Your heart sinks. The dreaded red X appears in your GitHub Actions. Now you're context-switching from creative coding into detective mode, scrolling through hundreds of lines of cryptic logs, hunting for that one error buried somewhere between line 847 and 1,203. Sound familiar? I've been there. We've all been there. And here's the truly haunting part: research shows that 80% of pipeline failures are just variations of problems we've seen before. Missing semicolons. Dependency con…  ( 13 min )

I Built an AI Startup Radar: 1100+ YC Companies on One Screen (2025 Trends Included) I spent the last 2 months of evenings scraping and analyzing every Y Combinator AI startup from W22 to W25. Live demo: https://yc-ai-radar.vercel.app/ Why I built it 2023: 44% AI startups 2024: 72% AI startups 2025: around 80% AI startups Everyone keeps asking the same questions: Which niches are already overcrowded? Where is YC actually betting money in 2025? Where should I definitely NOT build to avoid becoming the 152nd clone? Most solutions out there are Excel files, random tweets, or hours of manual digging. I wanted one single place that shows the real, normalized picture of the market. What the tool does Explore page – 1100+ startups with smart filters Trends page – market share growth instead of raw counts Example: Opportunities page – gap analysis + high-barrier warnings Legal, Healthcare, Finance look empty from afar… until you remember 12-18 month sales cycles, FDA approvals, heavy regulation, etc. Biggest 2025 insights I found AI Agents: from 7% (W22) to 29.2% (W25) = +157% market share Education exploded: +371% market share Enterprise Ops is dying: –54% Legal cooled off hard: –60% (looks like YC finally felt the barriers) B2B dominates completely: 85% of all AI startups (B2C only 11%) Tech stack & key decisions Python for scraping and analytics Rule-based categorization (yes, not LLM – reason below) React + Tailwind + Vercel frontend Currently moving from CSV to PostgreSQL Why rule-based instead of LLM: 100% deterministic (same input = same output forever) Fully explainable Processes 1100+ startups in under 1 second Zero hallucinations or drift Who this is for Founders & indie hackers → validate your idea in 30 seconds Investors → instantly see where YC is putting money right now Job seekers → find the fastest-growing companies Links https://yc-ai-radar.vercel.app/ Go see how many clones of your idea already exist in YC. Feedback and upvotes are very welcome!  ( 7 min )

Turbocharge Your Optimization: Preconditioning for the Win Tired of optimization algorithms that take forever to converge, especially when dealing with massive datasets? Imagine waiting days for a model to train, only to realize it could have been done in hours. We need better tools to tackle these computationally expensive problems. The core idea behind a recent breakthrough involves preconditioning orthogonality-based optimizers. These optimizers, which leverage geometric properties of the solution space, can be incredibly powerful, but their reliance on gradient orthogonalization often creates a performance bottleneck. Preconditioning acts as a turbocharger, accelerating the iterative process used to approximate the orthogonalization and making it far more efficient. Think of it like…  ( 7 min )

I Built a Tool That Stops Your Code and Docs From Lying to Each Other Picture this: It's 2 AM. Production is down. Your frontend is calling GET /users/{id}/posts. The backend removed that endpoint three weeks ago. The tests? All green. The docs? Still show the endpoint exists. How did this happen? Someone updated the code. Forgot to update the tests. Definitely forgot the docs. The spec? Nobody's looked at that in months. This is drift, when your code, tests, docs, and specs slowly become strangers to each other. And it's killing your velocity. That's SpecSync. It's a pre-commit hook on steroids that validates everything stays in sync, before the commit even happens. You add a new endpoint: git add backend/handlers/user.py git commit -m "Add user posts endpoint. " SpecSync blocks you:…  ( 7 min )

Bagi komunitas developer, Smart Home sering kali dilihat sebagai tumpukan perangkat dengan API yang membingungkan. Namun, bagi desainer interior, ini adalah kesempatan untuk menciptakan ruang yang benar-benar adaptif dan intuitif. Artikel ini akan menjembatani dua dunia ini: bagaimana kita, sebagai developer dan desainer, dapat membangun sistem IoT yang andal, aman, dan yang terpenting, "tak terlihat" di mata penghuni rumah. Tujuan utama smart home yang modern adalah Ambient Computing—teknologi yang bekerja di latar belakang tanpa memerlukan interaksi konstan dari pengguna. Ini menimbulkan tantangan desain: Estetika vs. Perangkat Keras: Bagaimana menyembunyikan sensor, kabel, dan hub agar tidak merusak estetika ruang? Fragmentasi API: Banyak vendor, banyak protokol (Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi…  ( 8 min )

Publisher Un emisor (Publisher) puede trasmitir cero o más valores a uno o más suscriptores, y un solo evento de fin que puede ser éxito o error. Una vez emitido el evento de fin, el emisor no puede volver a transmitir eventos. Los API anteriores para manejar llamados asíncronos pueden adaptarse al patrón de implementación propuesto por Combine. Por ejemplo, se puede crear un emisor para una notificación del NotificationCenter como se muestra a continuación: let myNotification = Notification.Name("MyNotification") let center = NotificationCenter.default let publisher = center.publisher(for: myNotification) No obstante, tener en cuenta que el código anterior no hará nada, porque el emisor NECESITA un suscriptor. Un suscriptor (Subscriber) define el comportamiento a aplicar ante la salida…  ( 16 min )

Deep linking sounds simple on paper. A user taps a link, the app opens, and they land on the exact screen they need. In reality, anyone who has implemented Universal Links (iOS) or App Links (Android) knows it rarely works that smoothly. Sometimes the app opens. Sometimes the browser opens. Sometimes nothing happens at all. Email providers break links with tracking wrappers, hosting platforms silently rewrite files, and mobile OSes often decide a domain isn’t “trusted” without telling you why. If you’ve ever spent hours trying to understand why a link works on Android but not on iOS, or why Gmail refuses to trigger your app, you’re in the right place. Universal Links and App Links only work when four layers line up correctly. In this guide, I’ll walk you through each one: Your domain You…  ( 19 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Unleashing Generative AI for Amazon Ads at Scale (AMZ303) In this video, Amazon Ads demonstrates how they built a large-scale LLM inference system on AWS to process billions of daily requests for understanding shoppers and products. The team shares their architecture using Amazon ECS with over 10,000 GPUs, implementing optimizations like disaggregated inference and KV-aware routing through NVIDIA Dynamo, achieving 50% throughput improvement and 20-40% latency reduction. They detail three inference patterns—offline batch, near real-time, and real-time—each optimized for different latency requirements ranging from seconds to milliseconds, while dynamically allocating GPU capacity based on traffic patterns to maximize reso…  ( 20 min )

If you're a professional driver or business owner searching for taxis for sale uk, you already know how important it is to find the right vehicle --- one that balances comfort, reliability, and affordability. The taxi industry is constantly evolving, and keeping your fleet up to date with new taxi cars for sale can make all the difference in your success. At Cabs4Less, we understand what taxi drivers need. From new taxi for sale listings to tailored finance options, our mission is simple: to make buying your next cab easy, affordable, and hassle-free. The taxi trade in the UK has never been more dynamic. With cities moving toward cleaner transport and passengers expecting higher comfort levels, drivers are looking for new taxi cars for sale that can keep up with modern demands. The rise o…  ( 10 min )

Insights and Career Guide Google Security Engineer, Data Center Platforms, Technical Infrastructure Job Posting Link :👉 https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/86733556700586694-security-engineer-data-center-platforms-technical-infrastructure?page=18 hardware and firmware security. The ideal candidate must be proficient in low-level programming languages like C/C++, possess a strong background in threat modeling for physical systems, and have hands-on experience with security assessments and design reviews. You will be responsible for ensuring that every piece of hardware deployed in Google's data centers is resilient against sophisticated attacks. This involves architecting and developing automated security tests, investigating security properties in low-level c…  ( 19 min )

Originally published at https://www.nocobase.com/en/blog/top-5-open-source-ai-internal-tools-on-github Previously we compiled a range of open source AI project resources, including a review of 11 open source AI no code platforms on GitHub and several summaries of AI low code tools. As AI technology advances rapidly, more open source projects are beginning to actively adopt AI capabilities. A similar shift is happening in the internal tools space. Last year we profiled a number of outstanding open source internal tool projects, and by 2025 most of them have added AI features, making the overall ecosystem feel renewed. This prompted us to create an updated, more systematic overview. 😄 If you are new to internal tools and the value they bring, you may want to read the introductory guide firs…  ( 11 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Zoox: Building Machine Learning Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles (AMZ304) In this video, Zoox's Jim Robinson-Bohnslav explains how the company trains multimodal foundation models for autonomous robotaxis using AWS SageMaker HyperPod. He describes Zoox's approach to handling long-tail driving scenarios—from jaywalkers to tanks on the Las Vegas strip—through large-scale language action models that combine LiDAR, radar, and camera data. The team uses supervised fine-tuning with tens of thousands of driving hours and reinforcement learning techniques like GRPO. Avinash Kolluri details HyperPod's auto-recovery capabilities and resilient infrastructure supporting 500+ node clusters with EFA networking. Anindya demonstra…  ( 31 min )

Here is a clean Markdown file you can save as ADD_PREFIX_TAILWIND_V4.md In Tailwind CSS v4, prefixes are no longer added using tailwind.config.js. directly in your CSS @import rule. Examples: src/index.css or: src/App.css You can use any prefix such as: tw my ui x custom anything you want @import "tailwindcss" prefix(tw); Or: @import "tailwindcss" prefix(my); Or: @import "tailwindcss" prefix(custom); tw): Hello Tailwind my): Custom Prefix Working Tailwind v4 uses this format: prefix + variant + ":" + utility tw-hover:text-red-500 tw-md:text-xl tw-dark:bg-black tw:hover:text-red-500 tw:text-red-500 my) Click Me Feature Tailwind v4 Behavior Add prefix @import "tailwindcss" prefix(tw); Any prefix allowed Yes Utility format tw-text-red-500 Variants tw-hover:bg-black Wrong format tw:bg-black  ( 6 min )

Behaviour Coding: BDD in the Age of Automation Warnings ⚠️ Warning 1 This article is written with AI as a copilot, and the irony is intentional. We are writing about AI while using AI. ⚠️ Warning 2 This perspective may feel irreverent to some. We live in a disruptive economy where staying relevant means questioning old dogmas. The paradigm of software development has shifted, and our practices need to evolve with it. Behaviour Coding is our answer to keeping BDD principles alive while embracing speed and automation. ⚠️ Warning 3 This piece is inspired by the article "Is BDD Dying?". That discussion led us to a new approach to BDD that we call Behaviour Coding. We are caught between two unacceptable extremes. On one side, vibecoding (writing code without discipline or verificat…  ( 10 min )

🌟 RELIGHT — Professional AI Lighting Made Accessible to Everyone Hi everyone! I’m Ritanshu, and this is the story of how I built RELIGHT — an end-to-end AI cinematic lighting engine that transforms ordinary images into studio-quality visuals using a chain of advanced AI models… all orchestrated smoothly with *Kiro. RELIGHT lets anyone create advertisement-level lighting in seconds — without photography studios, complex editing, or professional gear. And yes… Kiro didn’t just help me build this, it supercharged the entire development process. 🎥 What is RELIGHT? RELIGHT is a multi-model AI pipeline that performs: ✔ Realistic Photometric Relighting (IC-Light) Controls shadows, highlights, mood, and directional light using text prompts. ✔ GPT-4o-mini Vision Lighting Advisor Analyzes the…  ( 8 min )

As a Full-Stack Engineer, I got tired of paying for image hosting or dealing with complex S3 buckets just to host screenshots for my blog. So, I built my own Media Command Center. It is a secure, high-performance interface that connects directly to Cloudinary’s free tier. It allows you to: Drag & Drop images from your phone or laptop. Auto-Optimize them for the web (Next.js ready). One-Click Copy the Markdown URL for your projects. I built this using Next.js App Router and Server Actions to keep the API keys secure. Here is a snippet of the secure signing logic I used: javascript // Secure Signature Generation const signature = cloudinary.utils.api_sign_request( { timestamp, folder: "blog_assets" }, process.env.CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET ); ### Try it out (Exclusive Access) I decided to make the tool public for other developers, but I added a security gate to prevent bot spam. You can access the live tool here: 👉 **[Launch Media Command Center](https://boluadeoye.com.ng/media)** Use this Access Key to unlock the interface: `access!granted#` *Feel free to upload a test image to see how fast the optimization works!*  ( 6 min )

It’s been five years since I last touched competitive programming. Life got busy. Work changed. I moved on. But recently, I decided to return. And the very first problem that reminded me why I loved competitive programming was: Minimum Window Substring A simple-looking question that gave me more than a challenge— it gave me clarity, humility, and honestly… a spark I had missed. Coming back to CP after years felt weird. My fingers knew how to type fast, but my brain didn’t fire the way it used to. Problems I would have solved in minutes now took me an hour. I found myself overthinking simple cases, hesitating with patterns I once memorized. But in that discomfort, something awakened: I wasn’t here to be fast anymore. And that mindset made this problem—of all problems—hit differently. At fi…  ( 9 min )

When building robust JavaScript applications, error handling is not just about catching exceptions—it's about creating meaningful, debuggable error experiences. While many developers extend the native Error class, few understand the critical piece of code that makes custom errors truly professional: Error.captureStackTrace This powerful, V8-specific method transforms your error handling from functional to exceptional, providing clean, actionable stack traces that streamline debugging. Let's start with a common pattern for creating custom errors: class DatabaseError extends Error { constructor(message) { super(message); this.name = 'DatabaseError'; } } // When thrown, the stack trace includes unwanted frames: // DatabaseError: Connection failed // at new DatabaseError (fil…  ( 14 min )

Prerequisite Create Microsoft OAuth2 API Go to n8n website Click - (1) Click - Create credential (2) Search - Microsoft Drive OAuth2 API (1) Click - Continue (2) Paste – Client ID from Microsoft OAuth2 API (1) Paste - Client Secret from Microsoft OAuth2 API (2) Click – Connect my account (3) Login Checkbox - Consent on behalf of your organization Completed – Account connected  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Intelligent security: Protection at scale from development to production-INV214 In this video, AWS CISO Amy and colleagues discuss scaling security teams amid AI-driven changes. They emphasize three key strategies: embedding security expertise throughout development workflows using primitives like s2n-tls and tools like AWS Security Agent; adapting to evolving threats by measuring the right metrics (fix time over finding volume); and partnering closely with business needs. Examples include reducing log analysis from 4 hours to 11 minutes with AI, processing 312 trillion flows daily through Blackfoot, and achieving 96% accuracy in denied party screening with Bedrock Agent Core. Eli Lilly's Andrea Abell shares how threat …  ( 37 min )

LinkedIn has some of the most valuable professional data on the internet. It's also one of the hardest platforms to scrape reliably. After building Clerix.io - a LinkedIn data extraction API - I've learned exactly why most scraping attempts fail within hours. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I started. You've probably tried one of these approaches: Selenium/Puppeteer with a few proxies Works for 50-100 requests Gets your account flagged within a day Rate limits kick in unpredictably Buying "premium proxies" Burned through $500 in residential proxies Still got blocked after 200 profiles LinkedIn's fingerprinting caught the automation patterns Using existing APIs (Proxycurl, Brightdata, etc.) $1.5-5 per 1,000 profiles Rate limits at scale Stale data (often 30+ days old) The real…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - The power of cloud network innovation (INV213) In this video, Rob Kennedy, VP of Network Services at AWS, unveils major networking innovations for AI and multi-cloud environments. He details AWS's full-stack approach from hollow core fiber achieving 30% latency reduction to UltraSwitch and SIDR enabling sub-500ms convergence across 250,000 links. Kennedy announces Project Rainier with 1 million training chips for Anthropic's Claude, cross-region PrivateLink for AWS services, API Gateway Portal with MCP support, VPC encryption controls, Network Firewall Proxy, and Transit Gateway native firewall attachment. The keynote introduces AWS Interconnect Multi-cloud (preview with Google Cloud, Azure coming 2025) and last-mile co…  ( 33 min )

The "Trusted Analyst" Problem We’ve all seen the flashy demos: "Upload a CSV, ask a question, get a chart." It looks like magic. But in an enterprise environment, "magic" is dangerous. If a CEO asks, "What was our Q3 revenue?" and the AI hallucinates a number because it wrote bad SQL or misread a column header, that’s not a bug—it’s a liability. For my Google AI Agents Capstone, I didn't want to build just another chatbot. I wanted to build a Cyber-Physical System for Data: an agent that is secure, deterministic, and self-correcting. Meet ECIA (Enterprise CSV Intelligence Agent), a multi-agent system that separates "thinking" from "doing" to guarantee accurate insights. The Architecture: A 6-Agent Assembly Line Most beginners build a single "Super Agent" with 20 tools. This confuses th…  ( 9 min )

Prerequisite Create Microsoft OAuth2 API Go to n8n website Click - (1) Click - Create credential (2) Search - Microsoft Team OAuth2 API (1) Click - Continue (2) Paste – Client ID from Microsoft OAuth2 API (1) Paste - Client Secret from Microsoft OAuth2 API (2) Click – Connect my account (3) Login Checkbox - Consent on behalf of your organization Completed – Account connected  ( 6 min )

La documentación de Apple para la migración de XCTest a Swift Testing tiene un apartado que explica cómo validar comportamiento asíncrono. Allí se describe que, en la medida de lo posible, hay que preferir usar la concurrencia de Swift (i.e. async/await) para validar condiciones asíncronas. Por ejemplo, si es necesario determinar el resultado de una función de forma asíncrona, hay que usar await. Si una función recibe un "completion-handler" (no usa await), se puede usar un continuation para hacer que el llamado sea compatible con async/await. En el entorno de pruebas, la biblioteca de pruebas de Swift ofrece la funcionalidad llamada confirmation para hacer eventos-de-callback compatibles con concurrencia de Swift. A continuación presento los ejemplos Antes/Después que muestra la documenta…  ( 9 min )

withKnownIssue sirve para marcar una sección de una prueba como un error conocido que no debería hacer fallar la prueba, pero cuya resolución se quiere detectar en el futuro. Si el objetivo fuera simplemente ignorar una prueba fallida durante el desarrollo, es mejor deshabilitarla con .disabled. @Test func expectedIssue() { let sut = FailingFeature() sut.executeWithUnderlyingError() #expect(sut.expectedIssue == false) // ❌ Falla } En el ejemplo anterior, se sabe que el código señalado tiene un bug así que la prueba falla. Si no se puede arreglar el problema subyacente, se puede envolver el código que falla con withKnownIssue. @Test func expectedIssue() { let sut = FailingFeature() sut.executeWithUnderlyingError() withKnownIssue("BUG #123") { #expect(sut.expectedIssue == fa…  ( 10 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Agentic AI's new generation of Industry and Line of Business solutions (PEX202) In this video, Michael Schmidt and Ryan Thomas from AWS discuss agentic AI's transformation across industries. They explain how AI has evolved from reactive generative responses to autonomous multi-agent systems capable of complex decision-making. Using a circus industry analogy, they emphasize focusing on customer value over technology hype. Key statistics reveal that while 80% of customers have deployed AI, only 25% see benefits, but those successful implementations achieve 45% cost savings and 60% revenue growth. The session covers industry-specific use cases including construction scheduling with weather-dependent concrete delivery, medi…  ( 32 min )

Last week, I was helping a team debug a failing K8s rollout https://DevOpsToolbox.in I tried it during the debug session… And what would’ve taken 3–5 minutes of shuffling between random sites got done in under 10 seconds. It felt like having a DevOps Swiss Army Knife open in one tab. No distractions. No nonsense. Just clean, fast, engineer-friendly tools. If you work in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, Kubernetes, or even backend development → bookmark this. Save it. Use it. (You’ll thank me the next time YAML decides to ruin your night )  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor Pixel Café is not just a coffee shop app—it's a nostalgic journey into the world of retro gaming and 8-bit aesthetics! I created an immersive retro-futuristic coffee ordering experience that combines the charm of classic GameBoy graphics with modern interactive elements. The app features: 🖥️ Authentic CRT Monitor Effect with scanlines, screen curvature, and bezels 🐕 Beanagotchi - Your own pixel art Shiba Inu virtual pet with AI-like behaviors 🌦️ Dynamic Weather System that transforms the cafe's atmosphere 🎵 Retro Music Player with animated visualizer ✨ Holographic 3D Tilt Effect that responds to mouse movement 🎨 4 Theme Palettes: GameBoy Green, Amber Terminal, Cyber Blue, and Matrix What makes it special? I…  ( 8 min )

For this hackathon, we didn't just build with Kiro. We built for it. Our project, SkipSetup, started from a simple, frustrating observation that every developer using AI assistants has experienced: the "hallucination gap." You ask for a feature, the AI generates plausible-looking code, and then it breaks because it doesn't understand your project's authentication flow, your database schema, or your API conventions. We initially blamed the tools. But building with Kiro for #Kiroween revealed a more fundamental truth: The AI isn't the bottleneck. The lack of context is. Kiro is incredibly capable, but it operates like a brilliant chef walking into a new, unfamiliar kitchen for every single request. It can follow a recipe (the prompt), but it doesn't know where the pots are, how hot the stove…  ( 8 min )

Introduction SSL/TLS certificates are critical for web security and SEO, but they expire, get misconfigured, and develop vulnerabilities. In this guide, we'll build a comprehensive SSL certificate checker that validates certificates, checks security configuration, and monitors expiry. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypt data between client and server. Certificates authenticate the server's identity. Key Components: Subject: Domain name(s) the certificate covers Issuer: Certificate Authority that issued it Validity Period: Not valid before / Not valid after dates Public Key: Used for encryption Signature: Cryptographic proof of authenticity Certificate Chain: Root + Intermediate certificates const tls = require('tls'); const https = require(…  ( 8 min )

📋 Project Overview Niyam Niyati (meaning "Laws & Destiny" in Nepali) is an AI-powered civic engagement platform that helps Nepali youth (ages 16-25) understand complex legislative bills through empathy-driven persona exploration. The application transforms abstract legal documents into relatable human stories, enabling young citizens to understand legislation through the eyes of those it affects most. Young people often feel disconnected from legislative processes because: Legal language is intimidating and inaccessible Bills seem abstract with no clear personal relevance There's no easy way to understand how laws affect different people Traditional civic education fails to engage digital-native youth We built a Frankenstein monster of technologies - stitching together AI persona genera…  ( 9 min )

📋 Table of Contents What is Cloudflare Tunnel? Why Use Cloudflare Tunnel? Prerequisites Installation Quick Start Configuration Advanced Usage Use Cases Troubleshooting Best Practices FAQ Cloudflare Tunnel (formerly Argo Tunnel) creates a secure, encrypted tunnel between your local machine and Cloudflare's global network. It allows you to expose your localhost to the internet without: Opening ports on your router Exposing your home IP address Complex firewall configurations Port forwarding setup How it works: [Your Local App] → [Cloudflared Client] → [Cloudflare Edge] → [Users Worldwide] All connections are outbound-only from your machine, making it inherently more secure than traditional hosting methods. ✅ No exposed home IP address ✅ Automatic SSL/TLS encryption ✅ Built-in DDoS prote…  ( 16 min )

Introduction Broken links are a common problem that damages SEO, user experience, and site credibility. In this technical guide, we'll build a comprehensive broken link checker that crawls websites, validates HTTP status codes, and identifies issues. A broken link returns an HTTP error status code (typically 404) when accessed. Types of broken links: 404 Not Found: Page doesn't exist 500 Internal Server Error: Server-side error 503 Service Unavailable: Server temporarily unavailable Timeout: Server didn't respond in time DNS Error: Domain doesn't exist function normalizeURL(url, baseURL) { try { // Handle relative URLs const absoluteURL = new URL(url, baseURL); // Remove fragment (#section) absoluteURL.hash = ''; // Normalize trailing slash …  ( 13 min )

Quantum Illusions: Can We Really Trust Our Entanglement Tests? Imagine building a fortress, only to discover the enemy can waltz right through a seemingly impenetrable wall. That's the unsettling reality facing quantum cryptography. We think we're generating provably secure keys using quantum principles, but are we truly immune to sophisticated eavesdropping strategies? The answer may surprise you. The core challenge lies in quantum certification – verifying that the correlations we observe are genuinely quantum, and not cleverly disguised classical mimicry. The problem is that classical data mixed subtly with quantum data can deceive standard detection methods. An adversary only needs to inject a small amount of classical correlations to throw off our security protocols, making it nearl…  ( 7 min )

A significant security flaw has been discovered in React Server Components (RSC), affecting thousands of applications built with React 19 and the Next.js App Router. The issue arises from unsafe deserialization within the RSC “Flight” protocol, which allows attackers to inject malicious payloads, potentially leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE). RSC is fundamental to React’s modern architecture. Many applications utilise RSC without realising the associated backend risks. Even new projects created with create-next-app can be vulnerable. The flaw impacts core RSC packages in React 19. Upgrade React to versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1. Update Next.js to the latest patched versions (15/16). Audit and secure any RSC-related server endpoints. Monitor logs for suspicious RSC traffic. Framework-level vulnerabilities like this highlight the diminishing line between frontend and backend responsibilities. As React continues to evolve, developers must remain vigilant about security. If React or Next.js is part of your technology stack, update immediately and use this as a reminder to prioritise dependency security.  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - What's new in Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena (ANT206) In this video, AWS product managers present updates to Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena at re:Invent. Imran Moin covers Redshift's 2025 innovations across three pillars: cloud data warehouse fundamentals (including Multidimensional Data Layouts delivering 10x better price performance, enhanced materialized views, and FedRAMP authorization for Serverless), distributed warehouse architecture enabling workload isolation with data sharing, and Apache Iceberg support with read/write capabilities and 2x better price performance on data lake queries. Sean McKibben from Twilio shares how they reimagined their billing engine using Redshift Serverless and Zero ETL with his…  ( 34 min )

Lately, I’ve been curious about how much of the content online is actually AI-generated. Some posts feel human, some feel… a bit robotic. I decided to try MyDetector.ai to see how it works in real life. After spending some time with it, here’s my experience, along with what I think could make it even better. The site opens cleanly and immediately feels easy to use. No signup, no clutter, just a space to paste text or upload an image. I tried a few blog paragraphs, social media posts, and even a meme generated by AI — the results appeared in seconds. 1. Fast and effortless 2. Everything in one place 3. Clean design 1. Explain results better 2. Keep a history of results 3. Show changes in humanizer clearly 4. Mobile and accessibility 5. Transparency about limits Compared to NoteGPT AI Detector and AIHumanizer, MyDetector.ai feels lighter and faster. It’s great for quick checks, while NoteGPT offers more features for handling full files, batch processing, and workflow integration. AIHumanizer focuses mostly on text, and its control options are limited compared to MyDetector’s humanizer. Use MyDetector.ai for quick checks on social posts, blog snippets, or emails. For longer documents or multiple files, consider combining it with NoteGPT to get more detailed feedback and batch capabilities. When using the humanizer, always read the revised text to ensure it keeps your original meaning and tone. Using MyDetector.ai felt like having a small helper for your writing. It’s fast, simple, and approachable — ideal for quickly checking whether content might be AI-generated or needs a more natural touch. With some improvements, like clearer explanations, history tracking, and a better humanizer view, it could become a tool you rely on every day. https://mydetector.ai  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Architecting the future: Amazon SageMaker as a data and AI platform (ANT351) In this video, Brian Ross and team introduce the next generation of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, addressing enterprise challenges in data analytics and AI. They demonstrate how the platform unifies data producers, consumers, and governors through a single interface supporting SQL editors, notebooks, and visual ETL tools. Key features include IAM-based domains for quick setup, polyglot notebooks with Spark Connect, serverless Apache Airflow workflows, and S3 tables with Apache Iceberg for optimized storage. The demo showcases multiple personas—business analysts, data engineers, ML scientists, and GenAI builders—working seamlessly across data…  ( 35 min )

Hi everyone! Kacper and Tymek from Software Mansion here! 👋 This week, TanStack Pacer debuts in Beta, a new framework-agnostic library for controlling function timing with a dedicated React adapter. Lots of interesting articles featuring a 20,000x improvement in TanStack Router route matching algorithm speed, tips to speeding up Next.js on Kubernetes, and tutorial for React 19 Actions for better component responsiveness. On the React Native side, we'd like to highlight an incredibly detailed blog post on Vercel's breakdown of building the v0 iOS app. Enjoy the read! 💡 Subscribe to the official newsletter to receive an email every week! Why is internationalization so hard? How do you set up i18n in Next.js so it feels built-in — not bolted on? In learn.next-intl.dev, Jan Amann (maintain…  ( 30 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - GenAI game coach: Real-time gameplay feedback (DEV201) In this video, Gaganjot Kaur Kang, Staff Software Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment, presents an AI-powered game coach that provides real-time gameplay feedback. She demonstrates an AWS architecture using Amazon Bedrock with Nova Pro model, AgentCore, Rekognition, Transcribe, and Comprehend to analyze raw gameplay videos. The system processes a 5-minute Destiny 2 clip, identifying performance issues like situational awareness and timing mistakes that occur in 100-150 milliseconds—faster than human reaction time. The solution costs $0.90 per video analysis with 10-minute processing time. She shares a GitHub repository with full implementation details and dis…  ( 15 min )

Hi everyone! 👋 On December 10 at 18:00 (GMT+1) Health Samurai is hosting an online meetup “core.async: Deep Dive”. This talk goes under the hood of clojure.core.async to show how channels, queues, timers, and event loops actually work together to power asynchronous workflows. What will be useful: We invite Clojure developers who use or are evaluating core.async, language and runtime enthusiasts, and engineers interested in how asynchronous processes and message‑passing channels work beneath the abstractions. Event language: 🇬🇧 ** ** Participation is free, registration required! https://team.health-samurai.io/core-async  ( 6 min )

That’s exactly why I built and launched a PDF Compare tool on DiffGuru.com - a simple, fast, and privacy-first way to compare two PDF files online. Try it here: https://diffguru.com/pdf-compare What is Diff Guru PDF Compare? Diff Guru PDF Compare is a free online tool that allows you to: Upload two PDF files Instantly compare them Highlight added, removed, and modified content View clean, visual differences in seconds No sign-up. No watermark. No tracking. Why I Created This Tool As a developer working frequently with: API documentation Project proposals Legal PDFs Client requirement documents I needed a quick and reliable way to detect changes between versions. Most available tools were either: Paid Heavy desktop software Slow Or collected user data So I built Diff Guru with 3 core princi…  ( 7 min )

Drive chatbots across QQ, WeChat, Telegram, Discord, and more using visual workflows - no coding required. LangBot is an open-source instant messaging bot platform that connects AI workflow engines like Langflow, n8n, Dify, FastGPT, and Coze to platforms including WeChat, QQ, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and LINE. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Langflow's visual workflows as LangBot's conversation engine. True Multi-Platform: One workflow powering 8+ messaging platforms simultaneously Visual Orchestration: Drag-and-drop conversation design with conditional branches, multi-turn dialogs, and external API calls Flexible AI Models: Support for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and local models Fully Open Source: Both LangBot and Langflow are open-source projects for free …  ( 8 min )

I. In the winter of 1994, in a small apartment in Hong Kong, a fourteen-year-old boy plugged a US Robotics Sportster 14,400 Fax Modem into his family's telephone line. He had read about something called a "bulletin board system" in a PC magazine. He didn't fully understand what it was. He dialed anyway. The modem screamed. Static. Then text appeared on his screen. A welcome message. A list of names he didn't recognize, discussing topics he barely understood. He was terrified. He was hooked. Over the next two years, that boy spent hundreds of hours on BBSes. He made friends he never met in person. The person running each board—the "sysop"—was usually just some guy with a spare computer. But that guy was there. You could page him. He knew your name. That boy was me. And I've spent three de…  ( 8 min )

For the last two days, I’ve been learning the basics of JavaScript, and it has been really fun and easy to understand. These topics may look simple, but they are the building blocks for everything we will write in the future. So I wanted to share what I learned in a clear and beginner-friendly way. 1. Variables in JavaScript let Used for values that can change later. let age = 20; age = 21; const Used when the value should not be changed. const PI = 3.14; var The old way of declaring variables. Not recommended now because it creates confusion with scope. 2. Data Types in JavaScript Primitive Types String → "Hello" Number → 23, 45.6 Boolean → true or false Null → empty value Undefined → no value assigned BigInt → very large numbers Symbol → unique values Non-Primitive Types Object Array Function 3. Undefined vs Null undefined Means a variable exists but has no value yet. let x; console.log(x); // undefined null Means intentionally empty. We set it manually when something should have no value. let data = null;  ( 6 min )

Best Python Projects for 2026 (Beginner → Advanced) Python project-based learning is the most effective way to build real skills. This guide provides curated projects for every skill level, from your first project to production-grade applications that employers seek. Companies hire based on what you've built, not what you know. A GitHub profile with 3-5 solid projects beats 100 MOOCs every time. Portfolio projects demonstrate: Problem-solving ability Code quality and best practices Ability to complete projects end-to-end Real-world problem understanding Career impact: Students with 3-5 projects receive 40-60% more interview callbacks. Build a professional web presence: Tech: Flask, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, SQLite, Deployment (Render/Heroku free tier) What you'll learn: Web framework fundamen…  ( 8 min )

The spectre haunting higher education today isn’t plagiarism. That’s a problem of ethics and detection, and we’ve largely figured that out. The new spectre is far more insidious, far more dangerous — it’s the spectre of perfect output and an empty mind. Picture this. You’re in a university seminar, and a student can, in seconds, conjure a 2,000-word essay on the geopolitical intricacies of the Treaty of Westphalia. The prose is impeccable, the arguments razor-sharp, the structure flawless. But then, the uncomfortable question arises — “Can you explain the third paragraph without looking at your screen?” The answer is often silence. We are living through a profound uncoupling of doing from understanding. For centuries, the very act of labour — writing, calculating, coding — was the crucible…  ( 13 min )

I'm a computer science student who usually gets stuck in tutorial hell. I had an idea for a study group coordinator app that could match students based on their courses and schedules, but I never finished projects because I'd spend hours debugging setup issues, wrestling with dependencies, and copying code I didn't understand from Stack Overflow. When I heard about Kiroween, I decided to try Kiro despite being skeptical about another AI coding tool. I figured I needed a portfolio project anyway, so why not give it a shot. What surprised me most was vibe coding. Instead of searching for exact syntax or following tutorials that were almost but not quite what I needed, I just explained what I wanted in plain English. I'd say something like "I need a login system with email verification and pa…  ( 7 min )

If you’re in LATAM or Africa/Asia and you build apps, record dev videos, or write technical content, we’re running paid bounties for trying Openfort. Openfort is an open-source stack for: Embedded wallets Account abstraction Gasless UX Stablecoin flows This post is just a quick overview. All details (rules, examples, timelines) are in the bounty briefs + docs linked below. Same structure for LATAM and Africa/Asia. Track What you ship Reward (per region) 🛠 Demo apps Small app using Openfort wallets/AA 🥇 $500 · 🥈 $300 · 🥉 $200 🎥 Video 5–12 min screen recording tutorial 🥇 $400 · 🥈 $350 · 🥉 $250 ✍️ Content Thread / blog / newsletter Top 5: $50 · Others: $15 You can submit to more than one track. Payouts are in stablecoins. Real code and real product flows (not just slides) Clear, honest explanations Something another dev can copy or learn from No trading calls, no token hype Pick a track: demo app, video, or content. Build something small using Openfort (wallets, AA, gasless UX, or stablecoins). Publish it (GitHub repo, video, or post). Submit it following the bounty docs below. 🔧 Openfort docs: 🌐 Openfort site: 📄 LATAM bounty brief: 📄 Africa/Asia bounty brief: If you're interested, please reach out at estel@openfort.xyz  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025-How to build an AI Engine to generate near real time insights for videos at scale In this video, Aza Kai from Tokyo-based startup infinimind presents their AI-powered video search engine that addresses the "dark data crisis"—90% of enterprise video data (3-8 petabytes) remains unanalyzed. Their foundational model features four capabilities: Causal Event Reasoning (understanding "why" events occur), Omnimodal Retrieval (searching across all video modalities), Precise Temporal Grounding (finding exact moments), and Long-Context Understanding (analyzing hours to years of footage). Currently deployed for TV broadcasting in Japan, they're expanding to retail, manufacturing, and security sectors. Built on AWS infrastructure usi…  ( 11 min )

The journey from a brilliant game concept to a successful market launch is fraught with challenges. In today's highly competitive and rapidly evolving gaming landscape, many aspiring developers and studios, both large and small, recognize the immense value of partnering with an experienced game development company. This decision, however, is not to be taken lightly. Choosing the right partner can be the single most crucial factor determining your game's fate, influencing everything from quality and budget to timelines and ultimate market reception. This comprehensive guide will delve into why this partnership is so vital, what factors you should consider when making your choice, and how a leading service provider like Red Apple Technologies exemplifies the qualities essential for a success…  ( 13 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Automatic Enterprise ML with Amazon SageMaker and Nextworld (SMB201) In this video, Valerie Knafo from AWS and Luke Hollenback from Nextworld discuss how Nextworld leveraged Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to build an AutoML platform that dramatically improves enterprise application development. Nextworld's no-code, AI-native platform enables non-technical users to create business applications. By implementing SageMaker Autopilot, they achieved a 95% reduction in model build time (from four weeks to two days) and 33% accuracy improvement. A notable case involved organ transplant viability prediction, where AutoML reached 90% accuracy using only 12 of 120 dimensions in just two days. The solution drove immediate business impa…  ( 16 min )

Uncovering Social Footprints with a Powerful Open Source OSINT Tool In the realm of digital security and intelligence gathering, identifying and analyzing an individual's online presence is paramount. This article explores a sophisticated open-source OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) tool designed to meticulously uncover social footprints. OSINT refers to the collection and analysis of information gathered from publicly available sources to produce actionable intelligence. It's a crucial component in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and investigative journalism, allowing professionals to understand digital landscapes without resorting to intrusive methods. We'll delve into a specific open-source project that offers a robust solution for tracing digital footprints. This tool leverages a variety of public data sources to map out an individual's online activities, social connections, and digital interactions. Its design emphasizes ethical data collection and responsible use, making it an invaluable asset for security professionals and researchers. Comprehensive Footprint Analysis: Map out social media profiles, public records, and online activities. Ethical Data Sourcing: Relies solely on publicly accessible information. Professional Application: Ideal for cybersecurity, due diligence, and research. Open Source Community: Benefit from community-driven development and updates. This tool exemplifies the power and accessibility of open-source solutions in the field of intelligence. By understanding and utilizing such tools, professionals can significantly enhance their ability to gather critical information ethically and efficiently. For a deeper dive into the capabilities and implementation, read the full article here: https://www.opensourceprojects.dev/post/1995159299476312527  ( 7 min )

DevOps and SRE teams rely on dozens of SaaS tools like AWS, Atlassian Cloud, Zoom, Slack, Okta, GitHub, Salesforce, and more. So when even one of them goes down, operations can grind to a halt. And in those moments, teams need answers fast: What’s actually broken? Is it just us? Is it upstream? Is it a major provider meltdown? But checking dozens of vendor status pages isn’t fast enough. Especially when many of them update late, inconsistently, or not at all. Turning to Downdetector doesn’t always help either. During massive industry-wide outages, like the Cloudflare outage in November 2025 that knocked out half the internet, or AWS outages where cascading DNS failures took thousands of services offline, Downdetector reports become flooded with noise. You end up scrolling through unrelated…  ( 7 min )

EXHUMING ELIZA: How I Resurrected The 1966 AI Therapist with Kiro and Powered It With Amazon Nova Premier Ntombizakhona Mabaso for AWS Community Builders ・ Dec 5 #kiro #hackathon #kiroween #vibecoding  ( 6 min )

The Paradox of the Supercomputer in Your Pocket You have instant access to all of human knowledge. You can connect with anyone, anywhere, at any time. So why do you feel more scattered, anxious, and reactive than ever before? This is the great paradox of the digital age. We built a world for connection and ended up with a machine for distraction. The Analysis: Your Attention is the Product Let's be direct. The digital world was not designed for your peace of mind. It was engineered to capture and sell your attention. The infinite scroll, the push notifications, the algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself—these are not neutral tools. They are precision-engineered triggers designed to hijack your brain's ancient reward system. Every ping is a promise of novelty. Every 'like' i…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 -Greenfield unlocked: Best practices for expanding new customer engagement-PEX206 In this video, Ethel Garcia and Rehan Shah from AWS introduce the Partner Greenfield Program, a multi-year initiative designed to help partners acquire new AWS customers. They define Greenfield as customers new to AWS or minimally engaged, spanning enterprise to SMB segments. The session emphasizes using GenAI and agentic AI as entry points, noting that 53% of Greenfield customers lack AI skills and 25% of enterprises aren't AI-ready. Four key engagement principles are outlined: leading with business outcomes, systematic customer journeys, strategic AWS alignment, and integrated solutions. A case study features partner Tropole modernizing a …  ( 17 min )

ELIZA EXHUMED is more than a hackathon project. It's a demonstration of how far we've come since 1966, and how quickly we can build with modern tools. What if you could compare 1966 AI with 2025 AI, side by side, in the same conversation? Picture this: It's 1966! spooky?" Well...that's how ELIZA EXHUMED was born (or should I say reborn): a horror-themed chatbot that lets you toggle between the original 1966 pattern-matching algorithm and modern AI powered by Amazon Nova Premier. Built entirely with Kiro in just 4 days (well, two hours per day, therefore, in 8 hours!)for the Kiroween 2025 Hackathon. The core concept is simple but powerful: What if you could compare 1966 AI with 2025 AI, side by side, in the same conversation? In Traditional Mode, ELIZA uses the original pattern-matching al…  ( 12 min )

(with Demo Video, Screenshots & How Kiro Helped Me Build It) For a long time, I wanted a tool that didn’t punish emotions — but rewarded them. practice emotional regulation in a way that felt playful instead of heavy. That’s how EmoChild was born — a modern reinterpretation of the 1996 Tamagotchi, but instead of feeding or cleaning it… your own feelings. 🎥 Demo Video (https://youtu.be/P1iFQBk0_BM) 🟣 Live App: https://emochild.vercel.app GitHub Repo: (https://github.com/olivia-tech-psych/emochild) Built with Kiro: https://kiro.dev I grew up feeling like emotions were “too much.” As an adult — especially studying psychology — I realised how common this is. A lot of people don’t know how to express or name what they’re feeling. I wanted to build something simple enough for anyone, but still…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AI driven application modernization at scale (MAM103) In this video, Ravesh from Pega Systems explains how AI is driving application modernization, focusing on the 85% of workloads that haven't moved to the cloud due to legacy system complexity. Pega differentiates itself by focusing on rewriting applications rather than just analysis, offering three transformation dimensions: moving to cloud-native architectures, transitioning from programming languages to no-code platforms, and shifting from analog to agentic processes. Matt Healy demonstrates Blueprint, Pega's tool that uses AI agents to analyze legacy assets and generate cloud-native applications in under a day. The demo shows transforming a grants management system…  ( 16 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Optimize for AWS with intelligent automation (AIM235) In this video, the session explores performance and cost challenges of Agentic AI workloads in AWS and hybrid cloud environments. The speaker explains how Agentic AI's unpredictable, non-linear resource consumption leads to overprovisioning, with some customers experiencing only 30% GPU utilization and 10-20x excess GPU hours. Turbonomic is presented as a solution providing real-time optimization through continuous analysis of GPU instances, vCPU, and memory metrics. A case study demonstrates $13,800 monthly savings from a single P3DN 24XLarge GPU downsize to P3.8XLarge. The BAM team achieved 5.3x reduction in idle GPU resources and freed 13 GPUs for reallocation. Th…  ( 16 min )

Noise suppression can significantly improve the audio quality in any web app. This tutorial shows how to integrate the Koala Noise Suppression Web SDK from Picovoice and run speech enhancement directly in the browser. Since processing happens on-device, audio never leaves the user's machine, keeping voice data private with low latency. A simple webpage that accesses the microphone and applies Koala's noise-suppression model. This serves as a foundation for building voice chat tools, meeting apps, or any browser-based audio application. npm init npm install @picovoice/web-voice-processor @picovoice/koala-web Install a simple web server for testing: npm install http-server --save-dev Convert the Koala model into base64 so it can be loaded in the browser: npx pvbase64 -i ${DOWNLOADED_MODEL…  ( 7 min )

FSCSS gives CSS superpowers, and one of my favorite features is how it handles arrays. Today, here’s a very short example showing two ways to create arrays in FSCSS. You can declare an array using variables and then convert it into an FSCSS array: $array: a[2,3,4]; @arr($array!) exec(_log, "@arr.a") /* 2 3 4 */ @arr() registers the array, and exec(_log, ...) prints it to the console. str() for Large Multi-Line Arrays If you want to store a large amount of text, this method is cleaner and easier: str(Array, "b[ A, B, C ]") @arr(Array) exec(_log, "@arr.b") /* A B C */ Using str() lets you define big arrays over multiple lines — perfect for: Long lists Text blocks Component variants Lookup tables And FSCSS will still treat it as a proper array. FSCSS arrays are simple but powerful. How to use FSCSS  ( 6 min )

Loop: 1. for Loop The for loop repeats a block of code a specific number of times. It contains initialization, condition, and increment/decrement in one line. for (let i = 1; i <= 3; i++) { console.log("Count:", i); } for in loop: The for-in loop iterates over the enumerable keys of an object. const person = { name: "Alice", age: 22, city: "Delhi" }; for (let key in person) { console.log(key, ":", person[key]); } while: let i = 0; while (i < 3) { console.log("Number:", i); i++; } when the condition is false, the code of the block is not executed. Do While: do statement while (condition); for...in statement: The for...in statement iterates a specified variable over all the enumerable properties of an object. For each distinct property, JavaScript executes the specified statements. const arr = [3, 5, 7]; arr.foo = "hello"; for (const i in arr) { console.log(i); } // "0" "1" "2" "foo" for (const i of arr) { console.log(i); } // Logs: 3 5 7  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - From vibe to live in minutes with Heroku AI PaaS (AIM250) In this video, Julián Duque, Principal Developer Advocate at Heroku, presents their AI platform offerings. He demonstrates Heroku's managed inference and agents supporting models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Amazon Nova, with Model Context Protocol integration for secure data access. A live demo shows a solar energy dashboard using agents with database query and Python code execution tools. He also showcases Heroku Vibes, a tool for building web applications through natural language prompts, demonstrating an AWS Re:Invent agenda builder created and deployed entirely through conversational AI. ; This article is entirely auto-generated while preserving th…  ( 15 min )

En la era de la transformación digital, el impacto ambiental de la tecnología es un tema que debe ser considerado seriamente. Las plataformas de creación de sitios web, como WordPress, no son una excepción a esto. En este sentido, es posible implementar una serie de plugins y configuraciones que hacen de WordPress una herramienta más sostenible, contribuyendo a la reducción de la huella digital de nuestro sitio web. Primero, es importante tener en cuenta que el consumo de energía de un sitio web depende en gran medida de su peso en términos de tamaño de archivos y de las solicitudes que realiza a la red. Para reducir este impacto, es recomendable optimizar las imágenes que se utilizan en el sitio web y reducir al mínimo el número de solicitudes a la red. En este sentido, plugins como Smush…  ( 7 min )

Hola, hoy os traigo un pequeño script que acabo de generar (si, si, con la ayuda inestimable de la IA, en este caso, Chat-GPT 5.1). Con este script tendremos en cualquier página un efecto de copos de nieve cayendo muy chulo, y sin añadir ninguna librería externa, es super ligero. document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => { const css = ` .snowflake { position: fixed; top: -10px; color: white; font-size: 1em; pointer-events: none; animation: fall linear infinite; } @keyframes fall { to { transform: translateY(100vh); opacity: 0; } } `; const style = document.createElement("style"); style.innerHTML = css; document.head.appendChild(style); function createFlake() { const flake = document.createElement("div"); flake.className = "snowflake"; flake.textContent = "❄"; flake.style.left = Math.random() * window.innerWidth + "px"; flake.style.fontSize = 8 + Math.random() * 15 + "px"; flake.style.animationDuration = 4 + Math.random() * 6 + "s"; document.body.appendChild(flake); setTimeout(() => flake.remove(), 10000); } setInterval(createFlake, 200); }); Espero que os guste, y por supuesto, sentíos libres de usarlo, modificarlo y lo que queráis. Eso si, si lo mejoráis, ponerlo en los comentarios y lo actualizo ;-) Gracias!  ( 6 min )

I often see teams reach for WebSockets (via Socket.io or Pusher) when they simply need to update a UI with server-side state changes. While WebSockets are powerful, they are often overkill. If your requirement is unidirectional (Server → Client) — like stock tickers, progress bars, or notification feeds — Server-Sent Events (SSE) is the protocol you should master. SSE runs over standard HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2. It doesn’t require complex handshakes, works with standard authentication mechanisms and native support is built into every modern browser via the EventSource API. In this guide, we will implement SSE in Symfony 7.4 using two approaches: The Native Approach: Using StreamedResponse (Great for understanding the protocol and simple, low-concurrency tasks). The Production Approach: Using the…  ( 11 min )

Project: DreamWeen - AI-Powered Dream Visualization Platform Challenge: Kiroween Hackathon 2025 Category: Costume Contest Development Period: October - December 2025 DreamWeen was built entirely using Kiro, an AI-powered IDE that transformed the development process from concept to production-ready application. This document provides concrete examples of how Kiro's unique features—Spec-Driven Development, Steering Docs, Agent Hooks, MCP Servers, and Vibe Coding—were leveraged to build a complex multi-user application with authentication, cloud storage, AI integration, and real-time processing. The project demonstrates Kiro's ability to handle: Complex multi-phase development (POC → Production) Integration of multiple AI APIs (Gemini, Veo, OpenAI) Full-stack development (FastAPI backend +…  ( 21 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Using Amazon Nova Act to simplify login workflows (AIM271) In this video, 1Password's Anand Srinivas and Floris van der Grinten discuss their partnership with Amazon Nova Act to enhance login workflows. They explain 1Password's zero-knowledge security model for Agentic AI, emphasizing that secrets stay secret and raw credentials never enter model contexts. The presentation covers two main areas: securing browser-use Agentic AI through encrypted credential filling (demonstrated via partnerships with BrowserBase, Perplexity, and OpenAI's Atlas browser), and using Amazon Nova Act within 1Password's product to power Universal Sign On. This new feature automates complete login flows across various authentication methods by d…  ( 14 min )

Introduction As I continue my DSA study journey, this blog is the next step in my ongoing series where I document what I’m learning and hopefully make it easier for others to follow along. If you missed the previous one, it covered Big O notation and arrays, the foundations of understanding how our code performs and stores data. You can give it a read here In this blog, we’re going to look at three new data structures: hashmaps, stacks, and queues. These structures appear everywhere, from handling data lookup and caching to managing order in algorithmic operations. They might sound abstract at first, but they’re surprisingly intuitive once you understand their behaviour and when to use them. By the end, you’ll not only know what each one does, but also why they matter when designing syst…  ( 15 min )

We have all been haunted by the ghosts of unfinished business—that lingering guilt of things left undone. When the Kiroween challenge asked for something spooky, I wondered: What if productivity itself was the horror story? Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, I found the perfect metaphor. Just as Jacob Marley was weighed down by chains forged from a lifetime of neglect, every task we abandon is another link in our own chains. Every task we complete is a soul saved. The result is 'Marley's Ledger'—a to-do app where tasks literally haunt you, and your productivity determines whether you are redeemed or condemned. Orbital Haunting: Tasks aren't just list items; they represent ghosts that visually orbit your screen. Chains of Neglect: Subtasks manifest as heavy chains…  ( 8 min )

Hi Dev community, Over the past few days, I participated in the Google x Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, and it turned out to be one of the most transformative learning experiences I’ve had this year. The program helped me understand how modern AI agents work—how they reason, call tools, store memory, and interact with users. To apply everything I learned, I built a full Concierge Multi-Agent System using Python, Google’s Gemini API, and SQLite. In this article, I’m sharing my experience, my key takeaways, and how my understanding of agents evolved throughout the challenge. 🌟 What I Built: The Concierge Multi-Agent System As my capstone project, I developed a multi-agent application that acts like an AI concierge, capable of helping users with different tasks using specialized agents. ✅…  ( 8 min )

The Technical Vector As developers and SEO specialists, we often focus on optimization. But we must also understand Negative SEO. Our team at QingShield Center has reverse-engineered the tactics of TraderKnows, a platform currently attacking the fintech sector. Automated Data Ingestion TraderKnows doesn't rely on user submissions. They run scrapers against open data sources like Form D filings and MSB (Money Services Business) registries. This allows them to create profile pages for companies that technically haven't even launched yet. Templated Content Generation They utilize a high-volume programmatic SEO approach. The page structure is identical for thousands of URLs: H1: "Is [Brand] a Scam?" Body: AI-spun generic text warning about "lack of transparency." Meta: Optimized for "review," "scam," and "legit" keywords . The "SEO Trap" By creating thousands of internal links and cross-referencing these pages, they create a "link farm" that tricks Google into ranking their malicious page above the company's own empty social media profiles . The Mitigation From a technical perspective, you cannot "delete" their site. The only fix is Serp Domination. We observed that deploying 5+ high-authority pages (e.g., Crunchbase, TradingView, Yahoo Finance) pushes the TraderKnows URL to page 2 or 3, effectively neutralizing the threat .  ( 6 min )

If you've been working with Express.js for a while, you know the struggle. You start a project, and soon your controllers look like this: // The "Bad" Way app.post('/users', async (req, res) => { try { // ... logic } catch (error) { console.error(error); if (error.code === 'P2002') { // Prisma unique constraint return res.status(400).json({ message: 'User already exists' }); } // ... 10 more if/else checks res.status(500).json({ message: 'Something went wrong' }); } }); It's repetitive, hard to maintain, and prone to bugs. I got tired of copy-pasting error handling logic between my projects, so I built a tool to fix it once and for all. ​Meet ds-express-errors. ​ds-express-errors is a centralized, type-safe error handling library for Node.js & Express…  ( 7 min )

Create an example where a cron job or script processes incoming data (e.g., blog titles from a queue) and uses Zywrap wrappers to generate intros or summaries. Focus on automation and show how wrappers make the workflow stable and repeatable.  ( 6 min )

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! Let's walk through how module bundlers work. I want to show you the important parts by building a simple one together. Think of it like taking a box of separate Lego pieces and connecting them into a single, solid model ready for display. We will focus on eight key methods. We start with the entry point, usually a file like index.js. Our first job is to find it. The module resolver is our file system detective. It takes a request like ./utils and figures out the exact location of the file on your computer. The code begins by checking if the path is relative. It joins the path with the directory of the file that asked for …  ( 12 min )

Before my relaunch in October 2025, this channel had 1.2k subscribers, so just 2 months after the relaunch, over 300 new members joined the community. A 1.5k-strong community 🔥💪 The vision is becoming clearer each day. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this community. More educational content coming soon. Stay tuned. BTW, I launched my website a few weeks ago, check it out: https://techwithsam.dev  ( 6 min )

GraphQL has become the preferred interface for product teams. Both frontend and backend developers benefit from its type-safety, contractual guarantees, and composability. Yet the real challenge lies on the backend: implementing relational resolvers that can traverse complex schemas is often difficult and time-consuming. Yes, there are libraries that can spin up a GraphQL resolver quickly, but they often come with trade-offs: they're hard to customize, making it painful to add additional endpoints when your application grows beyond the basics. The hardest challenge is customization. Real-world applications demand fine-grained permissions and context-dependent business logic. Seaography is designed to solve this exact problem, offering: Automatic GraphQL resolver generation with data loader…  ( 13 min )

90% of your ad performance is determined by creative volume, yet most brands still treat video production like a Hollywood movie—slow, expensive, and precious. If you aren't launching 20+ fresh variants a week, your CPA is already climbing. The Core Concept The Strategy Key Metrics Koro automate this high-volume testing by turning product URLs into dozens of ad variants instantly. The era of the "perfect" ad is over. In 2026, volume is a quality of its own. If you are relying on manual production workflows, you are essentially bringing a knife to a gunfight against competitors using Generative Ad Tech. Creative Fatigue is faster than ever. I've analyzed 200+ ad accounts this year, and the pattern is undeniable: a winning creative that used to last 3 months now burns out in 10-14 days. If y…  ( 13 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Architecting resilient global networks with Amazon Leo (ARC320) In this video, Amazon Leo team members Nick and John present their satellite internet service, explaining how they're deploying over 3,200 satellites in low Earth orbit at 590-630 kilometers altitude to deliver sub-50ms latency and up to 1 Gbps speeds. They detail the technical architecture including phased array antennas (Pro, Nano, and Ultra models), satellites moving at 17,800 mph with inter-satellite lasers, ground gateways, and integration with AWS's global network infrastructure. The presentation covers orbital mechanics differences between LEO and GEO, security features including envelope encryption and Macsec, and AWS integrations using IAM temporar…  ( 40 min )

Building GamerLinks: A Link-in-Bio Platform with Auto Content Scheduling for Gaming Creators I spent the last few months building GamerLinks—a link-in-bio platform specifically designed for gaming creators. Here's what I built, why I built it, and the technical challenges I faced. Gaming creators (streamers, YouTubers, etc.) need more than just a static list of links. They need to: Show their stream schedules Highlight monetization options Build communities Track meaningful analytics Generic link-in-bio tools don't solve these problems. So I built something that does. Frontend: React 19.2.0 (Create React App) React Router v6 Tailwind CSS with custom gaming themes @dnd-kit for drag-and-drop date-fns for date/time handling Backend: Firebase Firestore (NoSQL database) Firebase Authenticatio…  ( 8 min )

We rebuild places from the grain of their ground. We recreate real-world locations, preserving their terrain and architecture.,, Heightmaps drive our 3D geodesign to prototype relief with precision.,, Satellite imagery and panoramic photos refine building shapes and layout.,, The world comes together in the lines and forms you already know—absorbing the real and opening to you. Thus ALIS reveals itself as a new form of reality—detailed, trustworthy, alive.  ( 6 min )

As AI becomes more capable, many learners hit a strange bottleneck—not because the tools are weak, but because their workflow can’t keep up. When your systems stay static while your tools evolve, you start losing efficiency, clarity, and depth. These are the clearest signs you need an AI workflow audit to realign how you study, work, and think. Here are ten signals your learning workflow AI ecosystem has outgrown its container. 1. Your AI Outputs Are More Sophisticated Than the Way You Use Them If you’re getting rich, layered explanations but still slotting them into outdated note systems or linear documents, the mismatch slows you down. Your workflow is too primitive for the complexity of insights AI now delivers. 2. You Keep Copy-Pasting Instead of Integrating When you constantly pas…  ( 7 min )

IA Générative et DevSecOps Dans un monde où les applications doivent être déployées rapidement et où les cybermenaces évoluent, l’intégration de l’IA générative dans les pratiques DevSecOps transforme la manière dont les équipes développent, sécurisent et déploient leurs logiciels. Cet article explore les applications concrètes, les avantages et les bonnes pratiques pour les développeurs, ingénieurs cloud et architectes. Le DevSecOps combine le Développement (Dev), la Sécurité (Sec) et les Opérations (Ops) dans un pipeline CI/CD. Contrairement aux méthodes traditionnelles, la sécurité est intégrée dès la conception et tout au long du pipeline. Objectifs principaux : Automatisation des tâches répétitives Sécurité continue : détection et correction des vulnérabilités Livraisons rapides et …  ( 7 min )

This article is a machine translation of the contents of the following URL, which I wrote in Japanese: https://qiita.com/Nana_777/items/27742e76bf47f9aa5fd5 This is the sixth post in the Japan AWS Top Engineers Advent Calendar 2025. On December 3, 2025, powers was announced as a new feature for Kiro. ↓ Click here for the Japan AWS Top Engineers Advent Calendar 2025. https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2025/aws-top-engineers For more details, please read the article below, but I'll share my impressions after trying it out. An enhanced version of MCP Kiro and powers work more closely together to do various things Installing powers on Kiro is easy, with a UI similar to installing a VSCode extension Kiro performs requested operations and settings even if you don't know how to use the connected d…  ( 8 min )

Werner’s keynotes have always been a builder’s keynote — practical, blunt, opinionated, and rooted in decades of real engineering lessons. This year was different. It was nostalgic, reflective, and ultimately a call to action for developers in an AI-driven world. And yes — it was also his last re:Invent keynote. So this one carried weight. A Moment of Transition — and a Message for Developers Werner opened by acknowledging what every developer feels today: the pace of change is insane, and AI is rewriting how we build. He didn’t sugarcoat the question everyone keeps asking: “Will AI make me obsolete?” His answer was simple: Not if you evolve. Not if you keep learning. Not if you stay curious. That set the tone for the entire talk — not doom, not hype, but grounded optimism backed by real…  ( 8 min )

HTML starts feeling real the moment a page stops being an isolated island. Links let you jump. Images add context and personality. Media turns a static document into something that moves and speaks. This is the point where the web stops being a pile of text and becomes an ecosystem. And underneath all of it sits a quiet but essential idea: attributes. Hyperlinks are the reason the “Web” is a web at all. The anchor tag wraps a bit of text or an element and says, “Go there.” Visit Google That href attribute is doing the heavy lifting. It tells the browser where to go, and the rest of the page simply trusts it. Add another attribute like target="_blank" and the link suddenly opens in a new tab. Same tag, different behaviour, attributes at work. An image is no…  ( 8 min )

Elevate your React interfaces with BorderAnimate, a polished Mantine extension that wraps any element—cards, buttons, inputs, alerts—and adds stunning, configurable border animations without sacrificing performance. If you’re building with Next.js and TypeScript and already rely on Mantine UI, this component feels like a natural superpower upgrade to your design system. Visual feedback and motion are essential to contemporary UI. BorderAnimate delivers a carefully engineered set of animation variants that draw attention tastefully—perfect for highlights, CTAs, focus states, and premium surfaces—while keeping your app buttery smooth via CSS animations at 60fps. Installation is straightforward, theming is intuitive, and the API aligns perfectly with Mantine’s props-driven ergonomics. Add st…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Concept to campaign: Marketing agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (AIM395) In this video, experts from AWS and Epsilon demonstrate how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services solve multi-channel marketing automation challenges through agentic AI. The session covers AgentCore's modular services including Runtime, Identity, Gateway, Memory, and Observability, explaining how they enable flexible agent deployment with any framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands) and any LLM. Key architectural patterns are explored: agent-to-agent communication via Boto3 or A2A protocols, security through IAM or OAuth authentication, multi-tenancy approaches, and cross-account deployment strategies. Epsilon showcases their real-world implementation …  ( 32 min )

A Kalshi clone script for sports and entertainment predictions is specialized software that enables entrepreneurs to build a legal prediction marketplace where users can trade on outcomes of sporting events, award shows, box office results, streaming numbers, and celebrity news. This ready-to-deploy solution provides all the technical infrastructure needed to launch a platform where fans can back their opinions about sports matches, entertainment industry developments, and pop culture events with real money. The sports and entertainment sectors generate massive public interest, making them perfect categories for prediction trading platforms. Millions of people follow their favorite teams, athletes, movies, and celebrities closely. A clone script helps you create a space where this passion …  ( 16 min )

A powerful WooCommerce loyalty program in 2025 is no longer a “nice-to-have” — it is a strategic engine for revenue growth, repeat purchases, and long-term customer retention. As competition increases and acquisition costs rise, businesses must focus on turning one-time buyers into loyal brand advocates. A well-crafted loyalty system not only elevates customer lifetime value but also drives predictable sales and sustainable brand growth. This comprehensive guide walks through the strategies, tactics, and best practices required to create a high-converting loyalty program that wins customer hearts and ranks on top in 2025. Consumers in 2025 expect personalized shopping experiences, faster rewards, and transparent value. Loyalty programs meet these expectations by offering incentives that al…  ( 9 min )

GitHub Copilot: AI Assistant for Developers GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI-powered tool that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. Integrated into VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and other IDEs, Copilot analyzes your project context and suggests entire functions, tests, and comments in real time. In 2025, Copilot has become an essential part of the workflow for millions of programmers worldwide. However, working with Copilot over unsecured networks creates serious risks: source code leaks, API key compromise, and prompt interception. This is where VPN becomes essential. Protection from code interception Bypassing corporate blocks Eliminating throttling Protecting GitHub API keys Learn more about VPN for Copilot 1. Developers in corporate networks Problem: IT departments bl…  ( 8 min )

Claude Code isn’t just writing code — it’s removing friction for SaaS founders by handling the repetitive glue work that slows development. It’s funny how fast developer culture is changing. A year ago, AI tools felt like assistants — something you asked a question and got an answer from. Now they’re starting to feel like collaborators. Not smarter than us, not replacing us, but definitely shortening the gap between idea → working thing. Claude Code is one of those shifts. It’s not flashy. There’s no big marketing moment. No hype cycle. Just… quiet usefulness. At first glance, it looks like something only hardcore developers would care about — command line, file access, workflows that look like automation scripts. That usually scares off product people and early SaaS builders because it fe…  ( 7 min )

Hi everyone! 👋 You know what’s frustrating? Opening a huge delivery box just to find a tiny item rattling around inside, surrounded by a mountain of bubble wrap. It’s inefficient, it’s bad for the environment, and honestly, it just feels wrong. Or maybe you’ve moved house recently and played "Real Life Tetris" trying to fit everything into the moving truck? I decided to tackle this problem the way I love most: with code. 💻 I built sort-it-now, a 3D packing optimizer written in Rust. The goal is simple but powerful: calculate the most efficient way to pack a set of items into a box (or container) and visualize the result. It’s basically an algorithm that plays Tetris for you, but in 3D and with much higher stakes (okay, maybe just better efficiency). I chose Rust 🦀 for this project because: Performance: When you are calculating 3D space and iterating through thousands of possibilities, speed matters. Safety: Rust’s memory safety guarantees help prevent silly bugs when dealing with complex data structures. It’s awesome: Let's be honest, writing Rust just feels good. Intelligent Optimization: It calculates the best fit for your items. 3D Visualization: It’s not just a console output saying "It fits." You get an interactive visualization to see how it fits. Open Source: Because sharing is caring! I love projects that bridge the gap between abstract algorithms and real-world visual feedback. sort-it-now was a playground for me to dive deeper into Rust while solving a classic optimization problem (the Bin Packing Problem). Plus, visualizing the output makes the math feel "real." The project is hosted on GitHub. I’d love for you to check it out, give it a spin, or maybe even drop a star if you find it cool! ⭐ 👉 GitHub Repo: JosunLP/sort-it-now I'm always open to feedback. If you have ideas on how to make the packing algorithm even smarter, or if you want to improve the visualization, feel free to open an issue or a pull request. Let's stop shipping air and start sorting it now! Peace out, — Josun  ( 7 min )

Read the original article：Click on the message notification to jump to the application page Problem description How to add behavioral intent to notifications and redirect to the specified page of the application when sending messages using Notification Kit? Background knowledge When publishing a notification, if you expect users to pull up the target application component or publish a public event by clicking the notification bar, you can apply for WantAgent through Ability Kit to encapsulate it in the notification message. Solution 1- Apply for notification permission in the code: enableNotifications() { let requestEnableNotificationCallback = (err: BusinessError): void => { if (err) { hilog.error(0x0000, 'testTag', `[ANS] requestEnableNotification failed, co…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge. Stepping Into the World of Agentic AI The AI Agents Intensive Course with Google and Kaggle changed the way I approach AI problem-solving. What started as curiosity soon grew into a clearer understanding of what agents can truly do: reason, plan and act autonomously. This reflection highlights the ideas that stood out to me and my experience building a Kaggle-dataset-powered Job Matching AI Agent as my capstone project. 1. Structured Agent Reasoning Loops Learning about Reflection–Critique–Improve (RCI) helped me appreciate how agents refine their outputs through feedback cycles. 2. Agents as Tool Users Understanding how agents call functions, retrieve data, evaluate outputs and iterate made me see them as action-orient…  ( 8 min )

Yooo, what's good, fellow keyboard jockeys! You know that feeling? That deep, comforting warmth that washes over you when your favorite, super-powered, hyper-intelligent AI assistant—your personal digital Annunaki—is humming along, churning out perfect boilerplate, refactoring ancient sins, and even making your commit messages sound profound? Yeah, that feeling. That's productivity nirvana. Then... BAM. I was mid-flow, architecting some revolutionary tech (okay, fine, I was asking it to write a Python script to rename 300 files), and I hit refresh. Instead of the familiar, clean UI and the prompt for Enlightenment 2.0, I was greeted by this absolute monument to digital disappointment: My productivity, staring back at me. 500 Internal Server Error. And beneath it, in a font so small it was…  ( 7 min )

Unlocking AI Reasoning: The Power of Modular Cognition Tired of AI that's a black box? Frustrated by complex systems that are difficult to debug and adapt? What if you could build intelligent systems with clear, reusable components, like assembling a LEGO masterpiece? The key is a modular cognitive architecture: a system designed with independent functional units. Think of it as breaking down a complex problem into smaller, manageable tasks, each handled by a specialized module, which drastically enhances explainability and adaptability. Each module focuses on a specific task (planning, evaluation, cross-checking, etc), enabling clear lines of responsibility and simplified debugging. This approach drastically simplifies AI development, especially for resource-constrained teams. Instead o…  ( 7 min )

Over 90% of React Native core modules now support the New Architecture as of late 2024. Yet many enterprise teams still run apps on the legacy bridge system, watching performance metrics lag behind competitors. Shopify proved the path forward works—they migrated two flagship apps while shipping weekly releases to millions of merchants. This guide walks you through the complete migration process. Whether you're managing app development Texas teams or distributed engineering groups worldwide, you'll learn what's changed, how to prepare your codebase, and the exact steps companies like Shopify used to modernize without disrupting business operations. React Native's New Architecture represents the most significant overhaul since the framework launched. The changes affect how your JavaScript ta…  ( 16 min )

WTF is this: The Mysterious World of Remote Work Infrastructure Automation Ah, the joys of working from home in your PJs, sipping coffee, and avoiding the dreaded morning commute. But, have you ever stopped to think about the magic that makes it all possible? I'm talking about the behind-the-scenes tech that keeps your remote work setup running smoothly. Say hello to Remote Work Infrastructure Automation – the unsung hero of the work-from-home revolution. In simple terms, Remote Work Infrastructure Automation refers to the use of technology to automate and manage the underlying systems that support remote work. This includes things like virtual private networks (VPNs), cloud storage, collaboration tools, and network security. Think of it like the plumbing and electricity in your home – you…  ( 11 min )

The AI gold rush isn't in generic tools — it's in specialized solutions. I spent the last 2 weeks building 5 niche AI GPTs targeting specific market pain points, and I want to share what I learned about building for underserved markets. Combines Vedic astrology with relationship therapy. Users input birth details and get compatibility readings, auspicious timing (muhurat), conflict analysis, and healing rituals. https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69327d508f1c8191864436f82a18a27d-astrobond-ritual-relationship-healing Transforms any story, incident, or idea into a viral Instagram Reel script with complete shot lists, captions, hashtags, and audio recommendations. https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69327fb502108191a8f053d8b4aad7db-reel-script-generator-story-to-viral Analyzes Indian contracts for risks, missing cl…  ( 7 min )

I'm currently learning data structures and algorithms. The textbook is boring. I can read through chapters, watch tutorials, feel like I understand everything—and then forget it all a week later. But whenever I explain something to someone else, it actually sticks. That's the Feynman Technique—if you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it. There's also rubber duck debugging, where you explain your code to a rubber duck to find bugs. I wanted to combine these ideas. Instead of AI teaching me, I would teach an AI. It's a bit like Frankenstein—bringing knowledge to life by teaching it to something that doesn't know anything. AI Protégé is a learning app where you teach an AI student instead of the other way around. You give it a URL or PDF of whatever you're trying to learn. …  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Data protection strategies for AI data foundation (AIM339) In this video, Derek Martinez and Sabrina Petruzzo from AWS demonstrate building a secure healthcare chatbot for nonprofits with live coding. They implement a six-layer defense-in-depth strategy including encryption, IAM access control, CloudTrail auditing, AWS Config HIPAA compliance, and PII detection using Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend. The session features hands-on implementation of differential privacy techniques like k-anonymity for age masking and data sanitization through a SageMaker pipeline. They demonstrate prompt injection defense by blocking malicious queries attempting to override security settings. The architecture separates raw and proces…  ( 27 min )

Message Trace in Microsoft 365 is a valuable tool for investigating email delivery issues, tracking message flow, and ensuring that important emails are reaching their intended recipients. It provides a detailed record of the path that an email message takes through your organization’s email infrastructure, from the time it is sent until it is delivered to the recipient’s inbox. How do you use this tool?? Below is a step-by-step guide on how to perform Message Trace in Microsoft 365. Step 1: Access the Exchange Admin Center First you need to go to Exchange Admin Center (https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com). Step 2: Starting a Message Trace Then inside “Mail Flow” click on “Message Trace” and then “Start a Trace”. Step 3: Message Trace Filtering Options By default, Message Trace…  ( 7 min )

Modern AI tools increasingly rely on multi-language learning models—systems trained on diverse linguistic data that understand ideas beyond the boundaries of a single language. Most learners don’t realize they’re benefiting from this evolution, but these models shape everything from clarity of explanations to the accuracy of analogies. As multilingual AI learning becomes standard, beginners gain smoother, faster learning experiences powered by insights drawn across languages and cultures. Multi-Language Models Understand Concepts, Not Just Words Traditional language tools focus on vocabulary and grammar. In contrast, multi-language learning models capture meaning at a deeper level, allowing them to: interpret your questions even when phrased imperfectly understand ambiguous wording offer…  ( 7 min )

As information multiplies faster than anyone can keep up, the most successful learners won’t be the ones who memorize the most—they’ll be the ones who can break knowledge into pieces, rearrange it, and reapply it anywhere. This ability, known as knowledge modularity, is quickly becoming a defining skill of AI-native learners. With modular learning AI tools now shaping how people study, modular thinking is turning into a competitive advantage across every field. Modularity Lets You Treat Knowledge Like Building Blocks Instead of Fixed Lessons Traditional learning treats subjects as long, continuous paths. Modular learning breaks them into self-contained units—concepts, patterns, rules, and examples you can plug into new situations. This shift allows learners to: assemble understanding fro…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Streamline AI model development lifecycle with Amazon SageMaker AI (AIM364) In this video, Khushboo Srivastava, Bruno Pistone, and Manikandan Paramasivan from KOHO demonstrate how Amazon SageMaker Studio streamlines AI model development, from data preparation to deployment. The session covers end-to-end workflows including fine-tuning large language models using SageMaker HyperPod with EKS orchestration, MLflow experiment tracking, and deployment options. Key features highlighted include IDE flexibility (JupyterLab, Code Editor, VS Code remote access), Trusted Identity Propagation for security, Amazon Nova model customization, and the new SageMaker Spaces add-on for running IDEs on HyperPod clusters with GPU sharing. KO…  ( 32 min )

Podlite is a small block-based markup language that is easy to read as plain text, simple to parse, and flexible enough to be used everywhere — in code, notes, technical documents, long-form writing, and even full documentation systems. One of the core ideas behind Podlite is its consistent block-based structure. Podlite supports three interchangeable block styles: delimited, paragraph, and abbreviated. =BLOCK) This is the most compact form. = followed by the block name. =head1 Getting Started =item Install Node.js 20+ =para Podlite makes documentation predictable and easy to automate. ends on the next directive or a blank line best used for simple one-line blocks cannot include configuration options (attributes) =for BLOCK) Use this form when you want a multi-line block or need attributes. =for code :lang console.log("Hello from Podlite!"); ends when a blank line appears can include complex content allows attributes such as :lang, :id, :caption, :nested, … =begin BLOCK … =end BLOCK) The most expressive form. Useful for large sections, nested blocks, or structures that require clarity. =begin nested :notify Make sure you have administrator privileges. =end nested explicit start and end markers perfect for code, lists, tables, notifications, markdown, formulas can contain other blocks, including nested ones These block styles differ in syntax convenience, but all produce the same internal structure. Regardless of which syntax you choose: all three forms represent the same block type attributes apply the same way (:lang, :caption, :id, …) tools and renderers treat them uniformly nested blocks work identically you can freely mix styles inside a document Project site: https://podlite.org GitHub: https://github.com/podlite Specification (HTML): https://podlite.org/specification source: https://github.com/podlite/podlite-specs Roadmap: https://podlite.org/#Roadmap  ( 7 min )

LLM, RAG, Embeddings, Vector Database. These were all buzz words to get everyone's attention a couple of years ago, but not anymore. Using an effective vector Database to perform Retrieval Augmented Generation or Semantic Search is mainstream now and with opensearch, you can make the process simpler Opensearch ingestion pipelines make it easier to generate vector embeddings for the data in flight with no hassle. This means two things, You don't need to write custom logic to convert the text content to a vector type and store it You don't need to write custom logic to convert the search query to a vector type The ingestion pipeline makes use of the builtin sentence transformer models provided by Opensearch to generate the embeddings for the text content. Opensearch comes bundled with a coll…  ( 10 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling foundation model inference on Amazon SageMaker AI (AIM424) In this video, Vivek Gangasani and Kareem Syed-Mohammed from AWS, along with Richard Chang from Salesforce, discuss deploying LLMs on SageMaker AI Inference. They cover 2025 trends including agentic workflows and reasoning models with test-time compute. The session focuses on three pillars: price performance optimization through Eagle 2/3 speculative decoding (achieving 2.5x throughput), dynamic LoRA adapter hosting, and inference components for multi-model deployment; flexibility with support for any framework, bi-directional streaming for voice agents, and multi-modality; and ease of use via self-service GPU capacity reservation and built-in observabil…  ( 32 min )

Hello everyone, I built software to help educational institutions make the assessment process smooth and easy. I call it PublicQ. PublicQ is a comprehensive assessment platform built with .NET 10 and React 19. It provides everything needed to create, manage, and deploy educational assessments with role-based access control, version management, and AI-powered assistance. Sophisticated Role-Based Access Control The platform implements a seven-tier role hierarchy where each role inherits permissions from levels below: • Exam Takers - Complete assigned assessments This hierarchical model eliminates complex permission matrices while providing granular access control. Like version control for code, assessment modules support full versioning: Groups are collections of assessment modules (not use…  ( 8 min )

You found a beautiful, open-source LaTeX resume template. It promised pixel-perfect typography and the kind of professional polish that word processors could only dream of. You, a person who values precision and structure, chose the right path: plain text. But a few hours in, you found yourself on Stack Exchange, debugging a package conflict just to move a date a few millimeters to the right. This isn't a story about resumes. It's a story about a trap that smart people fall into every day: choosing the most powerful tool for the simplest job. The principle behind LaTeX is noble: separate what you write from how it looks. It’s a rebellion against the unpredictable nature of WYSIWYG editors. But this noble pursuit comes with a hidden cost I call the Friction Tax. You pay this tax every time …  ( 7 min )

Unlocking the Power of Java's String max() Methods: Your Ultimate Guide Alright, let's get real for a second. If you're a Java developer, you've probably spent more time wrestling with Strings than you'd like to admit. They're everywhere—user inputs, API responses, configuration files, you name it. But here's the thing: most of us barely scratch the surface of what Strings can actually do. Today, we're diving deep into one of those "wait, that exists?" features: Java's String max() methods. Spoiler alert: Java doesn't actually have a built-in String.max() method. But before you close this tab thinking "this is clickbait," hear me out. The concept of finding the "maximum" string is something we implement all the time, and understanding how to do it properly separates the newbies from the …  ( 10 min )

When you work with WordPress long enough, you start to notice the same patterns appearing across very different projects. A site looks straightforward on the surface. A small business. A clean design. A couple of plugins. Nothing unusual. Yet the admin feels slow. Updates break things. Features behave unpredictably. And making a small change somehow takes an afternoon. This is the world I work in every day as a freelance WordPress developer. Most small business sites don’t become messy because someone made a huge mistake. A plugin added for a one-off feature. Individually, these choices are harmless. I’m rarely writing complex code. removing things that aren’t needed simplifying parts of the setup replacing fragile features with more stable ones modernising old themes or layouts cleaning up years of layered quick fixes giving the site a foundation it should have had from the start Most of the improvements come not from adding more, but from taking things away. Every platform has its own version of this problem. When you inherit a project: Technical debt isn’t always caused by bad engineering. Recognising this makes you better at understanding the real cause of instability, in WordPress or anywhere else. If a project feels messy, slow, or fragile, it doesn’t mean the people before you didn’t care. It usually means the project grew faster than expected. Your job isn’t to judge the past. It’s to give the project a stable future.  ( 7 min )

Building the Future, One Agent at a Time. When I enrolled in Google's 5-Day AI Intensive Course, I knew I was stepping into the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. What I didn't anticipate was how transformative those five days would be—not just in terms of technical skills, but in reshaping how I think about problem-solving in the age of AI. The Foundation: From Theory to Practice The course didn't waste time with superficial overviews. From day one, we dove deep into the architecture of multi-agent AI systems. Working in Kaggle notebooks with Python as our canvas, I learned that building intelligent systems isn't about creating one monolithic AI—it's about orchestrating multiple specialized agents that work in concert, each excelling at their specific role. Context engineering becam…  ( 8 min )

Build vs Buy for Web Scraping: A TCO Analysis with Real Numbers 💰 How we burned $260K building an in-house scraping team (and what we learned) 🔴 Built in-house scraping team: $1.98M over 3 years 🟢 Switched to API service: $332K over 3 years 💡 Savings: 83% + 6 months faster to market 📊 Break-even point: ~2M pages/month sustained volume Jump to: Cost Breakdown | Code Examples | Decision Framework // What I thought building a scraper would look like const buildScraper = () => { hireEngineers(2); rentServers(); writeCode(); return "Easy money! 💰"; }; // What it actually looked like const realityCheck = async () => { await hireEngineers(5); // Had to scale up await fightAntiScraping(); // Every. Single. Day. await handleEngineerTurnover(); // Lost key person await refac…  ( 12 min )

Labs used to be about glassware, good pipetting skills, and long nights with spreadsheets. That world is fading. Today, drug pipelines are driven by smart factories, gene-level data, and AI systems that never really sleep. If you are planning a career in pharma or life sciences, you are not just walking into a lab. You are walking into a data-rich, highly automated ecosystem that expects you to speak biology, code, and operations all at once. That can sound intimidating. It is also a huge opportunity. The next generation of scientists will not simply run experiments. They will choreograph integrated systems where a genome sequence, a process control chart, and a neural network all matter to the same decision. The shift begins in the classroom and teaching labs. A modern Pharmaceutical scie…  ( 9 min )

How to Design News Paper Stand using 3D CAD Software https://www.selfcad.com/tutorials/3t1d513u6y576n3m6a1f6h361l5j5r5z1o6v Once you launch the editor; https://www.selfcad.com/tutorials) available on the SelfCAD website. The tutorials page provides a treasure trove of guides, tips, and tricks that cater to designers of all levels. https://www.selfcad.com/academy/curriculum/), https://www.youtube.com/@3dmodeling101, and 3D Modeling 101 series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74nFNT8yS9DcE1UlUUdiR1wFGv9DDfTB). This comprehensive resource offers in-depth courses taught by industry experts, allowing you to master the intricacies of SelfCAD at your own pace  ( 8 min )

You know how in Reactive Forms, Angular automatically gave us state-based classes like ng-touched, ng-dirty, ng-pending, and ng-valid? Well when Signal Forms launched, we lost all of that. But in a recent Angular update, this feature quietly came back. And not just back, now we can fully customize it. In this post, I'll show you how easy it is to turn these classes back on and how to go beyond what Reactive Forms ever allowed. Here we have a form built with reactive forms: When we interact with the form, the built-in "ng-" prefixed state-based classes are applied automatically for us: Alright, let’s look at the exact same app, but now converted over to Signal Forms: Visually, it looks the same, but when we trigger different states of this form, notice we no longer get any of those state…  ( 11 min )

When you start exploring TypeScript in Node.js, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the tools, utilities, and concepts involved: tsx, ts-node, tsc, @types/node, tsconfig.json, CommonJS, and ES Modules. It's not always obvious what each of these does or why they even exist. This blog post walks you through everything in a logical order: A brief history of JavaScript and its module system What Node.js is and how it handles modules What TypeScript is and how it compiles to JavaScript How to run TypeScript files using three different tools: tsc, ts-node, and tsx By the end, you'll understand not only how to run .ts files, but why things work the way they do and how to avoid the classic Unexpected token 'export' errors. Let's get started. JavaScript follows a language specification called EC…  ( 15 min )

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio. I built an app called FridgeFeast.AI. It solves a common problem: staring at your fridge and not knowing what to cook. The app allows users to either scan their fridge or manually enter the ingredients they have at home. Then, using Google Gemini, it instantly generates a curated menu of recipes that match those ingredients perfectly. The Prompt I Used: "Create a React application called FridgeFeast.AI. It should have a dark, modern UI with green accents. The app needs two main buttons: 'Scan Fridge' and 'Manual Entry'. When a user inputs ingredients, use the Gemini API to generate 4 creative recipes including cooking time and difficulty level. Display the results in cards." (Note: I also refined the UI to make the cards look more elegant and added the '100% Match' badges). You can try the app yourself here: Click here to try FridgeFeast.AI Here is what the app looks like: As a university student beginning my journey in AI and Data Science, this was an exciting project. What I Learned: Prompt Engineering: I learned that being specific with my instructions (prompt) helps Gemini build exactly what I imagine. Rapid Prototyping: I was surprised by how fast I could go from a simple idea to a working app. Google AI Studio handled the complex coding parts, allowing me to focus on the logic and design. It was a great experience to see how easily we can integrate GenAI into practical, everyday tools like a recipe finder.  ( 7 min )

Maintaining food safety compliance is a continuous challenge for organizations in the food supply chain. FSSC 22000, a globally recognized certification scheme, provides a structured approach that not only ensures food safety but also reduces non-conformities that commonly arise during audits. A major contributor to this improvement is the strength and clarity of FSSC 22000 documents. These documents serve as the backbone of an organization’s food safety management system, helping teams work consistently, meet regulatory expectations, and respond proactively to risks. What Are FSSC 22000 Documents? FSSC 22000 documents include manuals, procedures, policies, work instructions, and forms that support the requirements of ISO 22000, PRPs, and the additional FSSC-specific requirements. These d…  ( 8 min )

Choosing whether to build or buy custom apps for help centers is a decision many teams face as their support operations grow. A help center usually starts simple, but as your product expands, you may need custom widgets, integrations, dashboards, or workflows that standard tools don’t offer. That’s when the real question appears: should you build a solution from scratch or buy an existing one? This post breaks down both paths in a simple, practical way—what works, what doesn’t, and how to decide without wasting time or budget. Help centers today do much more than store FAQs. They support search, collect feedback, guide customers, integrate with CRMs, and improve self-service. But built-in features often fall short as your needs grow. More advanced analytics than the default dashboard Cust…  ( 9 min )

Link: https://mathewdony.com/blog/orchestrating-ai-agents-to-create-memes I've been diving deep into AI agents and MCP servers over the past few weeks. Practice makes perfect, so I wanted to build an agent orchestrator system where multiple agents can talk to each other based on what they're meant to do. One fun idea that came out of this was a setup that analyzes the user's emotions based on their answer to the question "What's happening with you?" with the help of a specialised agent, which then generates a meme that matches the vibe. At this point, you've probably used some kind of LLM powered application either directly or indirectly. If you haven't thought much about it, in simple words, an AI agent is just an application that uses an LLM as its brain. If you compare it to a human, th…  ( 9 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Troubleshooting database performance issues at scale (COP331) In this video, Joe Alioto, a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, demonstrates troubleshooting database performance issues at scale through the story of Alex, an SRE lead at Ocktank. The session covers fleet-wide observability across multiple database engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server), using unified monitoring to identify performance bottlenecks. Key features include analyzing database load through honeycomb visualizations, investigating query patterns and execution plans, examining lock trees for blocking scenarios, and leveraging application signals for end-to-end transaction analysis. The presentation showcases how Database Insights and application…  ( 18 min )

用Python+React打造一个开源的AI写标书智能体~ 今天是第一期，招标文件解析： 招标文件动辄几万字，虽然现在各主流大模型的上下文窗口都越来越大，但也只能代表AI*“可以处理几十万字的上下文”，并不代表你随便扔给AI几十万字，它就能“处理得好几十万字的上下文”。* 我们在写投标文件之前，一定要先把招标文件通读一遍，标注出需要注意的点，然后再有针对性的撰写招标文件。 AI写标书也是一样，第一步要做的就是招标文件解析。 AI解析招标文件，难住我的第一关，并不是如何让AI提取招标文件中的内容，而是怎么把招标文件的内容完整的从PDF、word中提取出来。 word文件提取，选用的是docx2python content = None try: # 使用docx2python提取，它能更好地处理表格和结构 content = docx2python(file_path) extracted_text = [] # 处理文档内容 if hasattr(content, 'document'): for section in content.document: for element in section: if isinstance(element, list): # 这可能是表格 extracted_text.append("\n[表格内容]") for row in element: if isinstance(row, list): row…  ( 7 min )

Want to add powerful AI image generation to your workflow tools like Dify, n8n, Claude, or Cursor? This guide shows you how to deploy a Nano Banana MCP (Model Context Protocol) server using genai-mcp in just minutes. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that enables AI assistants to securely access external tools and data sources. Think of it as a standardized way for AI tools to talk to your services. genai-mcp is an open-source MCP server that wraps Google Gemini and compatible backends into a standardized HTTP endpoint. It provides: Image generation from text prompts Image editing with natural language instructions S3/OSS integration for automatic image storage Streamable HTTP transport compatible with major MCP clients Multiple backend support: Works with Google Gemini offi…  ( 10 min )

OpenAI, a leading AI research company, has designed and developed a range of natural language processing models capable of generating human-like responses and images in less time. With the rise of this advanced technology, businesses are eager to adopt it quickly to streamline their development process. Whether you're working with an AI company in Perth or exploring software development services in Sydney, leveraging AI and ML tools offered by OpenAI allows developers to craft intelligent, responsive applications that are cost-effective and save significant time. It's essential to determine whether it is a good fit for your app development project. Routine and repetitive tasks such as generating code snippets or writing basic functions can be automated and accelerated with OpenAI's API. B…  ( 11 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor After finishing my first project for the Uno Platform Hot Design Challenge, the Instagram-style profile page, I thought the journey was over. But something unexpected happened. I actually enjoyed the process so much that I couldn’t stop. So when I went back to the challenge and I read more the second prompt, WOW Factor, it felt like an invitation I couldn’t ignore. This time, instead of a mobile UI, I decided to build something bigger and more immersive: 👉🏻 A modern, clean, travel-agency landing page, entirely powered by Uno Platform. And of course, my goal became very simple: Make the judges say “WOW”… at least once. (Hopefully more than once!) 😄 The WOW Factor prompt asked for: ✔ A visually engaging home sc…  ( 13 min )

When I first started preparing for system design interviews, Linux was the elephant in the room. Sure, everyone talks about distributed systems and scalability, but how do you practically design systems on Linux? My early attempts were a mess — vague concepts, scattered resources, and zero hands-on guidance. Sound familiar? Fast forward six months, and with a structured learning path, I transitioned from clueless to confidently discussing Linux system design topics in interviews. Along the way, I tried multiple courses, documented pitfalls, and distilled core lessons that I’m sharing here. Whether you’re gearing up for a FAANG system design round or looking to deepen your Linux mastery for backend roles, these courses could save you months of wandering. Linux System Programming and Design …  ( 10 min )

The framework of modern big data application is roughly as follows: This is a heavy solution. Like other technologies, this architecture has some drawbacks in practice: First, O&M is complex. Cluster doesn’t work without O&M. Normally, the larger the scale of a cluster, the more complex the O&M. Moreover, current big data technologies cannot utilize hardware resources efficiently, and thus more hardware is required to make up for this deficiency, resulting in an increasingly large cluster scale, which in turn increases the complexity and cost of O&M. Second, the system is closed. At present, no matter what big data technology is adopted, it faces the problem of closeness. The so-called closeness means that the data can be calculated only when it is loaded into database, because the calcul…  ( 13 min )

This is a summary of what I learned in five day intensive course with google Property The notebook provides a hands-on introduction to building AI Agents using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK). The core difference between a standard Large Language Model (LLM) and an ADK Agent is the agent's ability to reason, take actions (use tools), and observe results to deliver a superior final answer. 🛠️ Step-by-Step Agent Construction 💡 Agent Core Principle 🔑 Core Concepts in Multi-Agent Systems The Need for Specialization The Problem: A single, "Do-It-All" agent becomes unreliable, hard to debug, and difficult to maintain because its instruction prompt becomes too long and complex. The Solution: Build a team of specialists (Multi-Agent System), where each agent has one clear, simple job (e.g.…  ( 27 min )

TLDR Problem: Engineers change teams frequently, and slow onboarding wastes everyone's time. Goal: Minimise the time between git clone and first meaningful pull request. Key practices: Setup scripts that interactively guide new engineers through environment configuration Code formatting tools (Prettier, ESLint) committed to the repo so standards are automatic Brief READMEs focused on "how to run this" rather than business context Descriptive file naming (transaction.service.ts, pos.client.ts) so the codebase is navigable Comprehensive tests that serve as living documentation and give new engineers confidence to make changes Pre-commit hooks to catch issues before they reach code review Protected branches and required approvals to prevent accidental mistakes Common libraries and pipeline …  ( 21 min )

Chapter 8: Concurrency Without Fear Wednesday morning arrived cold and bright. Ethan descended to the archive carrying coffee and a paper bag that smelled of cinnamon and cardamom. Eleanor looked up. "What's that scent?" "Kanelbullar. Swedish cinnamon rolls. The baker said they're made by multiple people working together—one mixes, one shapes, one bakes." She smiled. "Perfect timing. Today we're talking about concurrency—how to make programs do multiple things at once." Ethan set down the coffees. "Like threads?" "Similar, but lighter. Much lighter." Eleanor opened a new file: package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func sayHello() { for i := 0; i < 3; i++ { fmt.Println("Hello") time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond) } } func sayWorld() { for i := 0; i < 3…  ( 14 min )

Let me level with you. I’ve spent over 12 years knee-deep in enterprise software solutions, and 2025 is a make-or-break year. The companies running integrated platforms are pulling ahead fast. The ones still patching together 15-year-old servers and endless spreadsheets? They’re hemorrhaging cash and talent. At ITC Group itcs.com, we’ve guided hundreds of businesses from $20M manufacturers to $2B logistics giants through the transition. The results are consistent and measurable. Here’s the unfiltered truth about enterprise software solutions right now. What Enterprise Software Solutions Actually Do Today At their core, enterprise software solutions connect every critical function finance, operations, supply chain, HR, sales into one living system. No more data islands. No more manual bri…  ( 8 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Drive operational excellence for modern applications (COP327) In this video, AWS observability-focused solutions architects discuss operational excellence for modern distributed applications. They cover essential observability must-haves including business and technical metrics, the importance of standardized naming conventions and RED metrics (requests, errors, duration), and using tags and dimensions for context. The session demonstrates distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, showing auto-instrumentation requiring no code changes and manual instrumentation for business context. Key features include Application Signals in CloudWatch for automatic service discovery, correlated metrics and traces, SLO management, and tr…  ( 29 min )

I started exploring ARM-based AI applications - how generative AI and machine learning models can run locally on ARM devices. Video editing friction sparked the idea: how can I cut down the time to polish demo videos? That led to ScriptCraft - an iOS app that transcribes video, cleans up the script with an on-device LLM, generates new narration, and exports the final video. No cloud APIs. No uploads. Just your phone doing the work. I wanted to repurpose video content quickly. Record something, get an AI-polished transcript, hear it narrated professionally, export. No cloud APIs. No waiting for uploads. Just your phone doing the work. How it works: Import a video Transcribe the audio with on-device speech recognition Enhance the transcript with a local LLM Generate narration via TTS Replace…  ( 9 min )

SEO is a nightmare. It’s a terrifying landscape of broken links, invisible meta tags, and cryptic Google algorithms. For the Kiroween Hackathon, I decided to lean into that fear. Here is how I built a dual-mode React interface and integrated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let AI fix the issues for me. Most dev tools are either "fun side projects" or "boring enterprise SaaS." I wanted both. I built a Dual-Mode Interface that switches instantly with a hotkey (Ctrl+P): Costume Mode: A VHS horror aesthetic with CRT scanlines. Issues are labeled as "Ghosts" (Critical), "Zombies" (Warnings) etc. The 'Haunting Score' shows how haunted your site is: 0 means perfect (no ghosts), 100 means extremely haunted. You see your current score (e.g., 65/100) and work to exorcise the demons to reach 0. I…  ( 8 min )

Tuya is one of the fastest ways to launch IoT hardware — but the next stage of the ecosystem is evolving fast. With AI becoming increasingly accessible, more developers are looking to layer automation, prediction, and context-aware logic on top of existing Tuya devices. In this post I’ll walk through how you can integrate: Tuya Cloud API Tuya App SDK AI workflow engines or decision logic Device data (sensors, user events, usage stats) …into a scalable system that delivers smart, context-aware behaviors without rewriting device firmware or changing hardware. Full deep-dive (with diagrams & real project examples) here: ➡️ https://zediot.com/blog/tuya-ai-integration/ Tuya handles the heavy lifting for IoT: device enrollment, connectivity, consistent DP data reporting, and stable con…  ( 8 min )

Tired of losing context? OpenMemory gives your dev tools long-term memory! Self-hosted, open-source, local-first. Remember project history, user preferences & more. github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory #MachineLearning #MachineLearning #AIagents  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Advanced multicloud cost reporting with FOCUS (COP419) In this video, Justin Marks and Jason from AWS demonstrate advanced multi-cloud cost reporting using FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification). They explain how FOCUS solves the complexity of normalizing cost data across multiple cloud providers and SaaS platforms. The session covers FOCUS 1.0 and newly launched 1.2 specifications, including 48+ standardized columns for consistent cost analysis. Through live Athena demos, they show how to create consolidated views joining AWS, Azure, and other provider data, calculate key metrics like effective cost and savings percentages using billed cost, list cost, contracted cost, and effective cost columns, and use adva…  ( 29 min )

This is Day 5 of Building SaaS Solo - Design, Implementation, and Operation Advent Calendar 2025. Yesterday I wrote about "Documentation Strategy for Indie Development." Today I'll share my Git branching strategy for indie development. In team development, there are established branching strategies like Git-flow and GitHub Flow. However, the situation is different for indie development. Characteristics of indie development: You're the only developer (conflicts are rare) No reviewers (self-review is the norm) Want to iterate quickly (minimize procedures) On the other hand, there are also these challenges: Don't want to break production Want to track change history easily Need rules for collaborating with AI agents (Claude Code) Based on these considerations, I've adopted the following branc…  ( 9 min )

A Love Story Gone Wrong For three years, I was that person. You know the one. The AWS evangelist in every architecture meeting. The one who'd defend Amazon's cloud empire with religious fervor. "But the ecosystem!" I'd say. "But the integrations!" I'd insist. I was basically Jeff Bezos's unpaid marketing department. Then AWS decided to teach me a valuable lesson about loyalty. Picture this: You wake up one morning, and your production application is down. Not because you did anything wrong. Not because of a code bug. Not because Mercury is in retrograde. No—because AWS decided, in its infinite wisdom, to slash your Bedrock quota to well below normal levels. Why? Great question! The answer, as far as I can tell, is: ¯\(ツ)/¯ The documentation says something, but for some weird reason, this…  ( 9 min )

Remember when your LinkedIn feed was full of posts with 47 comments that all said "Great insight!" and "Thanks for sharing!"? Yeah, LinkedIn remembers too. And they weren't fans. In March 2025, LinkedIn rolled out what they're calling their "authenticity update"—which is corporate speak for "we're done with your engagement pod nonsense." The change was quiet. No big announcement. Just a sudden, dramatic drop in reach for anyone still playing the artificial engagement game. I've been tracking LinkedIn algorithm changes since 2019, and this one's different. It's not a tweak. It's a fundamental shift in how the platform identifies and rewards genuine professional conversation. And if you're still using tactics from 2023, your content is basically invisible. Let me show you what actually work…  ( 12 min )

An unfiltered journey through the first ten Google search results for “google interview platform,” narrated by a senior engineer who has survived more interviews than there are JavaScript frameworks. Google and its corporate satellites love to promise a better way to hire. Every few years we get a new miracle tool — powered by AI, naturally — claiming to reinvent the interview process. Spoiler: it is usually just a prettier wrapper around the same broken system that measures technical skill in a vacuum and ignores whether you can actually do the job. But fine. Let’s take a look anyway. A free tool where you talk to your laptop as if it were your therapist. The AI transcribes your voice and returns feedback like “You used job-related terms!” which is about as groundbreaking as noticing wate…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 -NFL Fantasy AI: Zero to Production in Weeks w/ Bedrock and Strands Agents-SPF304 In this video, AWS and NFL present how they built Fantasy AI in just eight weeks—an AI assistant delivering NFL analyst-grade fantasy football advice. Michael Butler, Henry Wang, and Mike Band detail their architecture using Strands Agents framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Amazon Bedrock. Key innovations include a semantic stats dictionary reducing token consumption by 70%, consolidated tools cutting specs by 50%, and a fallback provider achieving 90% throttling reduction. They implemented strategic caching for 2x throughput improvement and 45% cost reduction. The system achieves 90% analyst-approved responses in under 5 seconds, …  ( 33 min )

As I was working on projects with my usual stack with Prisma ORM, my IDE used to lag during every npx prisma generate command. At first, I thought it was just my machine. But after multiple projects—different environments, different databases—the problem remained the same: Prisma’s code generation step was slowing down my workflow and affecting overall productivity as it uses Rust binary engines.* This performance issue pushed me to explore alternatives, and that’s when I discovered Drizzle ORM—a lightweight, SQL-first ORM that instantly solved all the bottlenecks I was facing. Why Prisma Causes IDE Lag (Especially During prisma generate) Prisma offers fantastic developer experience—until your schema grows. Here’s why: 1. npx prisma generate Is Heavy by Design Prisma doesn’t just gener…  ( 8 min )

Next.js 16 vs Remix vs Astro: Choosing the Right React Framework in 2025 I'll be honest: choosing a React framework in 2025 is overwhelming. When I started building CodeCraft Labs, I had to decide: Do I use Next.js 16 with the App Router? Or try Remix 2 with its amazing data loading? Or go with Astro 4 for a content-focused site with islands? Next.js 16 had just stabilized Turbopack (700% faster than Webpack). Remix promised better data mutations and progressive enhancement. Astro offered zero JavaScript by default with optional React islands. Here's what surprised me: Next.js 16 wasn't the obvious choice. For a portfolio site with mostly static content, Astro would be faster. For a dashboard with complex forms, Remix would be simpler. But I chose Next.js 16 anyway. Not because it's "the…  ( 18 min )

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a promotion! Starting a new project Fixing a tricky bug Finally understanding a concept that confused you 💡 Happy Friday!  ( 6 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Powering your success through AWS Infrastructure innovations (NET402) In this video, AWS Senior Principal Engineers Jorge Vasquez and Stephen Callaghan explore infrastructure innovations through a fictional online store called Shannon Store. They cover CloudFront's new flat-rate pricing plans, quantum-safe TLS algorithms in s2n-tls, VPC Block Public Access and Encryption Controls, AWS WAF's anti-DDoS capabilities with fingerprinting that mitigates 90% of floods within 20 seconds, the 320 Tbps Fastnet transatlantic cable, network traffic engineering using distributed market simulation without central control, Cross-Region PrivateLink, and Ultra Cluster 3 with AWS UltraSwitch enabling seamless network maintenance and traf…  ( 34 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Kiro and Amazon Bedrock: Unlock AI Agents for Your Legacy Apps (MAM403) In this video, Ryan Peterson, AWS's worldwide tech leader for modernization, explores the evolution from traditional application modernization to agentic AI systems. He traces AI development from 2017's Transformers through tool use and the Model Context Protocol, predicting billions of agents by 2028. The session demonstrates Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and AgentCore Gateway, which bridges AI agents to legacy applications using the MCP standard. Peterson showcases how the open-source Strands Agents SDK and Kiro IDE enable rapid agent development through spec-based approaches. A live demo illustrates integrating an unmodified Swagger Petstore applicati…  ( 30 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor I built Terra Nova, a cinematic travel discovery application designed to bridge the gap between utility booking apps and immersive travel journalism. Most travel apps are just scrolling lists of thumbnails. I wanted to build something that felt like holding a high-end magazine. I chose a "National Geographic meets Airbnb" theme, focusing on: Destination as UI: The destination image is the interface, not just a decoration. Cinematic Dark Mode: A layout that prioritizes content popping against deep black gradients. Editorial Typography: Using crisp, high-contrast text hierarchies to mimic the look of luxury print media. Here is Terra Nova in action. Notice the smooth transitions and the editorial layout style. Li…  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections Introduction: Entering a New Era of AI Development When I first joined the Google 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course, I expected a technical workshop — perhaps a set of tutorials on building smarter chatbots or improving prompt engineering. What I experienced instead felt like stepping into a fundamentally different paradigm of software development. I realized quickly that this was not a course about writing prompts. In five days, my mental model of AI shifted from “LLMs as text generators” to LLMs as orchestrators inside dynamic, tool-augmented ecosystems. Each day layered new capabilities, new abstractions, and new ways of thinking — until the final picture resembled something closer to real cognitive a…  ( 11 min )

I built a small desktop calculator as a side project — nothing fancy, just wanted something where I could type stuff like 100 + 10% or time in Tokyo and get quick answers. Chose Tauri because I didn't want another 150MB Electron app on my machine. Here's what I learned along the way. The good stuff first: my app ended up at ~5MB, uses barely any RAM, and starts instantly. Rust backend means actual native performance. No regrets there. But I ran into some gotchas that nobody warned me about. Spent an embarrassing amount of time wondering why 100 + 10% gave me 100.1 instead of 110. Turns out I was treating 10% as 0.1 and just adding it. But that's not how humans think — when someone types $50 + 20% tip, they want 20% of $50 added, not 0.2 added. Simple fix once I realized it, but it's t…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Boost performance and reduce costs in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS (DAT312) In this video, Principal Database Solutions Architect Pini Dibask demonstrates performance and cost optimization strategies for Amazon RDS and Aurora through a fictional company called AnyCompany. He covers three main cost dimensions: compute, storage, and backup. Key techniques include using CloudWatch Database Insights for observability, SQL optimization with proper indexing, instance right-sizing with Graviton processors (achieving 46% cost reduction), leveraging read replicas for workload separation, implementing io2 Block Express for sub-millisecond latency, and using Optimized Reads with local NVMe SSD for complex queries. For Aurora speci…  ( 36 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Navigate multicloud with AWS: Essential foundations for success (HMC101) In this video, Ellie and Shankar from the AWS multi-cloud program present foundational guidance for operating in multi-cloud environments. They introduce the AWS Multicloud Readiness Framework and discuss three deployment models: discrete, integrated, and flexible. Key topics include understanding customer motivations (flexibility, M&A, regulatory requirements), defining clear business cases before adoption, and implementing best practices across enterprise strategy, foundations (security, networking, FinOps, observability), architecture, and data/AI layers. They emphasize that adding another cloud doesn't automatically solve challenges like lock-i…  ( 27 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025-AWS Local Zones- Sophos’ new edge in the global race against cyber-attacks-HMC215 In this video, Ben Lavasani from AWS and John Peterson and Simon Reed from Sophos demonstrate how AWS Local Zones dramatically reduced latency for Sophos's threat intelligence service, SXL (Sophos Extensible List). Sophos processes 223 terabytes of data daily, blocking 11 million threats across 600,000 customers. Previously deployed across five AWS regions, high latency caused performance degradation and timeout issues. By deploying to Local Zones, particularly in Latin America and North America, Sophos shifted their latency bell curve significantly lower. Their deploy-measure-optimize approach proved resilient during Hurricane Milton in Flo…  ( 15 min )

Every conversation with Claude Code starts the same way: from zero. No matter how many hours you've spent together, how many architectural decisions you've made, how many bugs you've squashed side by side — the next session begins with a blank slate. Claude doesn't remember you. Doesn't remember the project. Doesn't remember that breakthrough moment yesterday when you finally figured out why the tests were failing. It's like working with a brilliant colleague who gets amnesia every night. I decided to fix that. If you use Claude Code (or any AI coding assistant), you know the pain: Session 1: "Let me explain our architecture... we use a two-stage compiler, the auth system uses JWT with RS256, and here's why we chose Svelte over React..." Session 2: "So, as I explained before..." — wait, no…  ( 8 min )

npx is something that is very handy nowadays, combining both installation as well as utilization of the tool in one command. It makes things very straightforward, but have you wondered what actually happens behind the scenes? Let's take a look. Suppose you ran npx package-name. Creation of temporary directory Running npm Creation of CLI "shim" npx executes the shim This is the basic overview; now let's dig into each one and get an idea. First step of the process: creating a temporary directory. It can be /tmp/npx-. The following npm command is run: npm install package-name --no-save This will install into the temp directory and there won’t be any global installation. Okay, now the npm installation is done; now we need to craft a bridge from npm to npx, right? Like me, you would …  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Beyond EHR: Leveraging AWS for Maximum Clinical and Operational Impact (IND213) In this video, Michael Hegyi from AWS discusses how running Epic on AWS has become standard practice, with 46 organizations now live or implementing. Kevin Olson, CIO of Jupiter Medical Center, shares their successful migration to Epic on AWS and implementation of Amazon Connect, achieving a 50% reduction in call abandonment rates, 20% improvement in CT/MRI utilization, and significant cost savings. Caroline Peika, Director of Integration and Analytics at Rady Children's Health, presents their cloud-native data platform "Platform Mosaic" built on AWS with Databricks and Tableau Cloud, plus their private AI assistant "RCH Chat" using Claude 3…  ( 27 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - AI Agents Slash PGA TOUR's Content Cost While Boosting Coverage/Quality -SPF204 In this video, David Provan from PGA Tour and Murali Baktha from AWS explain how they implemented agentic AI to generate content at scale for PGA Tour's digital platforms. They detail the architecture using AWS Bedrock and Agent Core runtime to produce 140-180 articles weekly, with plans to reach 800 articles per week. The system generates betting profiles, tournament recaps, and player analyses for 156 players per tournament, achieving 95% cost reduction at 25 cents per article while delivering content within 5-10 minutes post-tournament. The solution uses multiple AI agents including research, writer, editor, and validation agents working …  ( 25 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor If you grew up during the Windows 95 era, there's a good chance you used the iconic media player Winamp. I decided to modernize the classic Winamp interface using Fluent Design and make the app cross-platform with the Uno Platform. GitHub Repository Desktop Mobile Web The cross-platform capability is basically an effort-less feature for a Uno Platform project. You only need to adapt the design to different screen sizes. You don't have to worry about the physical device. It's a pure joy to see the app running on Android, Windows, iOS, Web and macOS without any code change. In the player section, the play, pause, stop, next and previous buttons are working. The band sliders are clickable. The amp visualizer and wave oscillator are animated with real-time rendering by SkiaSharp. The amp visualizer and wave oscillator are cool to watch. PS: some people might not believe me if I say I spent two evenings of about three hours each!  ( 6 min )

Just saw the alerts about the critical React 19 / RSC vulnerability flooding the feeds? This CVSS 10.0 high-risk flaw instantly exposed React 19.x and Next.js 14.3+ applications to single-request RCE, forcing many teams to scramble and urgently upgrade their frameworks overnight. Meanwhile, the SafeLine WAF site, built with React 18 + Next.js 14.0.1, has remained completely unaffected from the start. Was it luck? Not entirely. From a product security perspective, all SafeLine WAF versions are insulated from this vulnerability: Proactive full-stack protection: SafeLine’s core defense logic already covers risks in full-stack frameworks. Next-gen semantic analysis: Our patented semantic analysis engine goes beyond traditional rule-based methods, deeply understanding request payloads to d…  ( 7 min )

2025년 기대되는 K-드라마 신작 TOP 5 2025년 상반기 방영 예정인 한국 드라마 중 가장 기대를 모으는 작품들을 소개합니다. 현대와 과거를 오가는 판타지 로맨스로, 인기 배우의 복귀작이라는 점에서 큰 관심을 받고 있습니다. 방송사: tvN 방영 예정: 2025년 3월 장르: 로맨스/판타지 연쇄 살인 사건을 추적하는 형사 이야기로, 원작 웹툰의 높은 인기를 바탕으로 제작되었습니다. 방송사: Netflix 방영 예정: 2025년 4월 장르: 스릴러/범죄 작은 시골 병원을 배경으로 한 감동적인 이야기가 펼쳐집니다. 방송사: SBS 방영 예정: 2025년 5월 장르: 메디컬/휴먼 2025년 상반기 드라마 라인업은 정말 풍성합니다. 로맨스부터 스릴러까지 다양한 장르의 작품들이 시청자들을 기다리고 있습니다.  ( 6 min )

En este artículo comparto cómo interceptar mensajes de ventana en WinUI 3 usando interop con Win32, para bloquear la acción de maximizar cuando el usuario hace doble clic en el title bar. Evitar que la ventana principal se maximice al hacer doble clic en la barra de título, manteniendo el resto de comportamientos intactos. using Microsoft.UI.Windowing; using Microsoft.UI.Xaml; using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Windows.Graphics; using WinRT.Interop; namespace TestApp.WinUI3 { /// /// An empty window that can be used on its own or navigated to within a Frame. /// public sealed partial class MainWindow : Window { private readonly IntPtr _hwnd; private readonly IntPtr _oldWndProc; private delegate IntPtr…  ( 8 min )

10:30 PM and I'm this close to bringing 1997's VRML back from the dead 🎃👻 Parser finally rendering glowing jack-o'-lanterns and transparent ghosts. Tomorrow: demo video, then ship it.  ( 6 min )

Your senior engineers spend 8-12 hours per week reviewing code. At $150K salary, that's $9,600/year per engineer just on reviews. For a team of 5 seniors? That's nearly $48,000 annually. And here's the kicker: most of that time isn't catching the bugs that matter. I run a development agency. We build software for startups and SMBs. Last quarter, I tracked how much time our senior engineers actually spent on code reviews. The average: 9.5 hours per week. At their billing rate, that's over $10,000 per engineer per year just reviewing code. Here's what bothered me: 70% of the review comments were about formatting, naming conventions, and style inconsistencies. Things a linter could catch. Things that don't matter. Only about 20% of comments caught actual logic errors or potential bugs. The st…  ( 9 min )

The AI industry entered December 2025 with headlines that paint a fascinating paradox: billion-dollar valuations alongside slashed sales targets, explosive user growth meeting commercial skepticism, and groundbreaking capabilities colliding with legal landmines. Behind the noise, three fundamental forces are reshaping what comes next. This isn't another listicle of AI announcements. Instead, let's decode the interconnected dynamics that explain why AI's trajectory is far more nuanced than either the hype or doom cycles suggest. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly declared "code red" after Google's Gemini gained 200 million users in just three months. This isn't corporate theater—it signals a fundamental shift in competitive dynamics. For years, OpenAI enjoyed first-mover advantage with ChatGP…  ( 8 min )

Demo YouTube Click the image to watch the demo video. This project was built for Kiroween, a Halloween-themed hackathon hosted by AWS celebrating their AI coding agent Kiro. The challenge: build something creative with Kiro in under a month. For me, it was truly fumbling in the dark—my first online hackathon, no video production experience, working solo in Japanese while submitting everything in English. MairuCLI is an educational CLI wrapper that detects and blocks dangerous commands. "Mairu" (参る) is a Japanese word meaning "to be troubled" or "to be defeated." It's also a wordplay on "Kiro." When you enter a dangerous command in the CLI, a Halloween-themed warning appears and teaches you why it's dangerous. Key Features: 🔥 11 Dangerous Pattern Detection — rm -rf /, chmod 777, d…  ( 13 min )

How I Built an AI Personal Safety & Emergency Assistant Using Multi-Agent Systems The 5-Day Google & Kaggle AI Agents Intensive Course was one of the most transformative learning experiences I’ve had. I came into the course excited but unsure about how complex multi-agent systems really work. By the end, I built a complete AI Personal Safety & Emergency Assistant—a multi-agent emergency detection system that analyzes risk, triggers alerts, and assists users during dangerous situations. This post is a reflection on what I learned, how the course changed my understanding of agentic AI, and how I built my capstone project. Before this course, my idea of “agents” was very basic. But the training revealed how powerful AI agents are when combined: Day 1 — The Fundamentals I learned the found…  ( 8 min )

Why I Think Most AI Tools Don’t Deserve to Be SaaS Jaideep Parashar ・ Dec 4 #ai #saas #cloud #api  ( 7 min )

Linux servers power a majority of enterprise workloads — from on-premise data centers to cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. While Linux is inherently secure, misconfigurations, weak access controls, and inconsistent patches often expose organizations to cyber threats. Today’s threat landscape includes ransomware attacks, privilege escalation exploits, kernel vulnerabilities, and misconfigured cloud workloads. Hardening Linux environments is essential for protecting data, minimizing attack surfaces, and ensuring compliance such as CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, and ISO-27001. This article explains industry-proven best practices for securing Linux systems across enterprise and cloud environments. ⸻ 🔹 1. Keep Systems Updated and Patch Regularly Unpatched systems are the most common cause of sec…  ( 8 min )

Modern wellness has a strange habit: we take ancient remedies that were once deeply personalized, strip away the personalization, put them in a bottle, and congratulate ourselves for “being natural.” In Ayurveda, every remedy is built on context — your constitution (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), your imbalance, the season, the digestive strength, and even the delivery medium. When you blur all of that, the effect of a remedy can swing from therapeutic to utterly useless. This is exactly where AI can do what humans realistically won’t: track hundreds of variables in real time and make a precise recommendation without requiring anyone to memorize 5,000 years of nuance. Let’s take two classics: turmeric and ashwagandha. To the supplement industry, these are static objects: “anti-inflammatory,” “adapto…  ( 8 min )

A few weeks ago, we had one of those production incidents that quietly start in the background and explode right when the traffic peaks. Aurora MySQL, a Lambda with a 30-second timeout, and a poorly-designed cache invalidation strategy that ended up flooding our database. Here’s the story, what went wrong, and the changes we made so it never happens again. The night before the incident, we upgraded our Aurora MySQL engine version. The next morning around 8 AM, our daily job kicked in — the one responsible for: deleting the stale “master data” cache refetching fresh master data from the DB storing it back in cache This master dataset is used Application to work correctly, so if the cache isn’t warm, the DB gets hammered. Right after the engine upgrade, a specific query in the Lambda suddenl…  ( 9 min )

As AI becomes more involved in software development, an important question appears. How should software be shaped so that AI tools can contribute meaningfully Modern AI systems can assist with coding and refactoring, but they often struggle when a codebase is large and many parts depend on one another. Future models may read far more context at lower cost, yet even with those improvements there is practical value in shaping software as a collection of smaller self contained units. AI tools tend to perform better when the area they work on is narrow and clearly defined. This usually means: one clear responsibility minimal unnecessary dependence on other parts predictable logic behaviour that can be tested or understood on its own When these properties exist, intent becomes clearer, misunder…  ( 8 min )

day 1 of the kubernetes CKA study journey - the first lesson in the KodeKloud video is on etcd - so today we're chatting about et-see-dee! etcd is basically a highly available, distributed, reliable key-value database that is simple, secure, and fast. This is important because etcd stores all the cluster information and whenever you use kubectl get , the API is querying the etcd database. It stores information regarding the cluster including nodes, pods, configurations, secrets, accounts, roles, role bindings, etc. There are many types of databases and etcd is a key value one for the purpose of being very quick to search and retrieve information (high performance), although this also means it doesn't handle really complex queries like a SQL database might. You can, however, store c…  ( 7 min )

In modern IT environments, where businesses demand higher reliability, rapid deployment, and zero downtime, manual server administration is no longer enough. Linux administrators today must manage hundreds or thousands of servers spread across hybrid cloud environments. Repetitive tasks, configuration drifts, and inconsistent patching often lead to downtime and significant operational costs. Automation has emerged as a critical solution to these challenges. Among the available tools, Ansible has become the most widely adopted due to its simplicity, agentless architecture, and powerful automation capabilities. This article explains how Linux automation using Ansible can drastically improve uptime, scalability, and operational efficiency in enterprise environments. ⸻ 🔹 The Challenges of Tr…  ( 8 min )

I just finished building FrankenStack for the Kiroween hackathon, and honestly… Kiro completely flipped my entire dev workflow on its head. Every time I need to connect two different APIs—say Stripe webhooks → Shopify GraphQL—I end up writing hundreds of lines of glue code. Field mappings Error handling Retry logic Authentication Boilerplate hell Last month it took me 4 hours to hand-roll one adapter. I found 9 bugs during testing. Pain. I kept thinking: Enter Kiro When the hackathon dropped, I thought Kiro was just another AI code assistant. Kiro isn’t about generating code… It forces you to think in specs, architecture, and clarity before you even touch code. Specs Changed How I Think About Code** Before Kiro: After Kiro: Here’s an actual spec I wrote: adapter: code_structure: generation…  ( 8 min )

"We're saving 135 hours per month just in our marketing team." That's what the VP of Marketing told me about their AI document workflow. Not theoretical savings. Real, measurable time back in their day. But here's what struck me: they're not unique. Across every industry I researched, organizations are seeing 30-40% productivity improvements from AI document tools. Legal teams cutting contract review time by 80%. Healthcare providers reducing documentation burden by hours daily. Financial analysts getting through reports in minutes instead of hours. This isn't future technology. It's happening right now, and the gap between early adopters and laggards is widening fast. Let me show you exactly how different industries are using AI PDF chat—and the ROI they're seeing. Corporate attorney, use…  ( 11 min )

Introduction For many businesses, repetitive tasks take up a lot of time. Preparing monthly reports, consolidating data from different sources, cleaning messy spreadsheets, reconciling numbers, and updating performance metrics are just a few examples. What if most of this work could be automated without investing in expensive software? Though often seen as a basic spreadsheet tool, Excel remains one of the most powerful and accessible automation platforms available. As of 2025, somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 billion people globally use Excel. In addition, more than half of businesses worldwide continue to rely on Excel or spreadsheets for core tasks. This shows that Excel is not just a “nice to have”; it is deeply embedded in business workflows. This makes it a perfect candidate for autom…  ( 9 min )

more-shadcn-svelte: A UI component library that extends shadcn-svelte with advanced UI components not in the core registry. Key features: ⚡ Built on Svelte 5 Runes with $state, $props, and $derived 📦 Install through shadcn-svelte CLI instead of npm packages 🔒 Full TypeScript support with strict prop typing ✨ Components ship with animations and micro-interactions 🎨 Source files land in your project for direct customization The library includes Autocomplete, Tag Input, Color Picker, Stepper, Image Zoom, Number Ticker, and about 20 other components. Works with your existing shadcn-svelte setup. 👉 https://next.jqueryscript.net/svelte/advanced-more-shadcn-components/ 👉 GitHub Repo 👉 Live Demo  ( 6 min )

I am documenting the Agentic Development Principles that currently guide my team and me. This post is Part 1, focusing on maximizing effective human-AI collaboration when using LLMs as development assistants, ensuring we build products efficiently and safely. Agentic Development refers to the practice of using AI agents as collaborative partners in the development process. This approach requires the intentional design of specialized workflows, clear feedback loops, and well-defined decision boundaries. Integrate AI tools directly into the coding environment to deliver instant suggestions and error checking, minimizing context switching and delays. This maximizes value-added time and aligns with B3: The Batch Size Feedback Principle. Failure Scenario: A team uses an AI code completion tool …  ( 8 min )

Evolving Excellence: Can AI Design Algorithms Better Than Us? Stuck wrestling with complex simulations that demand superhuman accuracy? Tired of endless trial-and-error to find the perfect solver? What if we could delegate the algorithm design process itself to a team of AI agents? Imagine a system where AI agents, each specialized in a different aspect of algorithm design, collaborate to autonomously develop, test, and refine numerical methods. Think of it as a pit crew for algorithms, rapidly swapping out components and configurations until the optimal solution emerges. This approach utilizes a hierarchical, evolutionary process where agents explore vast design spaces, guided by pre-existing knowledge and performance feedback. At its core, this paradigm shift leverages a feedback loop…  ( 7 min )

Every day, we all run into small tasks that should take seconds — turning a PDF into a Word document, formatting messy JSON, picking colors for a UI, generating gradients, converting images, and so on. But instead of being quick and simple, these tasks often send us through: • websites full of ads, • login requirements, • pop-ups, or • slow, bloated interfaces. I was tired of jumping between five different sites just to complete basic tasks. So I decided to build something better. 👉 https://freealltools.site Whether you’re a developer, designer, student, freelancer, or casual user, FreeAllTools aims to be a simple place where you get things done instantly. Introducing FreeAllTools.site A clean, fast, multilingual toolbox designed for everyday tasks — with no login, no ads, and no frictio…  ( 7 min )

Monetizing AI Conversations: Unlock Sustainable Revenue Without Paywalls The biggest challenge in the AI landscape today? Monetization without killing user experience. As developers, we’re excited about the rapid expansion of AI applications, but many of us are grappling with how to create sustainable revenue models that don’t annoy our users. That's where Monetzly comes in—think of it as the Google Ads for AI conversations. AI apps are blossoming, but a common issue persists: how do we monetize effectively without imposing paywalls or subscription fees? Users expect free access to innovative technology; however, developers need to sustain their projects financially. This is a delicate balance, and it's often why promising AI apps struggle to thrive. Monetzly is a game-changer that allow…  ( 7 min )

I am Marilyn Alvarado. I am a Latina founder from Peru living in Silicon Valley. I have won grants from the City of San Francisco and raised funding from the NEAR Foundation, but there is one thing I am not: I am not a backend engineer. In the past, building a real-time, high-frequency trading platform for massive events would have required a $500k budget and a team of three senior developers. These days, I built it in 48 hours with $0 budget. 🛑 The Nightmare Scenario (The Problem) Google Maps is useless (it doesn't know which gate is actually moving). The Solution: You need a local hero. A valet parking at a nearby hotel who can take your car right now. 🧟‍♂️ The "Frankenstein" Architecture Most devs would say: "Rewrite everything in React." We stitched together two technologies that usu…  ( 8 min )

LocalTunnel Server Setup Documentation 1. Files 1.1 docker-compose.yml version: "3.8" services: lt-server: image: defunctzombie/localtunnel-server:latest container_name: lt-server restart: always ports: - "3000:3000" networks: - localtunnel-net command: bin/server --port 3000 --host 0.0.0.0 localtunnel-nginx: image: nginx:latest container_name: localtunnel-nginx depends_on: - lt-server restart: always ports: - "8081:80" volumes: - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro - ./site.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro networks: - localtunnel-net networks: localtunnel-net: driver: bridge nginx.conf events { worker_connections 102…  ( 7 min )

Strategy Construction: The Art of Screening and Arrangement In-depth screening: Combine your application's core scenarios and solutions, and use professional tools to analyze search volume and competitive challenges. From the user's perspective, consider the keywords they might type to find your service. Scientific Combination: Prioritize core functional terms (e.g., "photo editing") paired with scenario or user identity terms (e.g., "for photographers") to create long-tail keywords. Add 1-2 high-traffic industry terms to boost exposure, but ensure they remain highly relevant. Smart Ranking: The algorithm prioritizes the most frequently searched and precisely matched core keywords. Apple's algorithm evaluates keyword relevance and weight, giving higher priority to top-ranked terms. Continuous Optimization: A Data-Based Dynamic Process Keywords are never a one-time fix. Regularly (e.g., quarterly) analyze each keyword's impressions and download conversion rates using' Search Performance 'data from' App Store Connect '. Discard keywords with' impressions but no conversions 'decisively, and test new potential keywords to establish a closed-loop' analysis-optimization-testing' cycle. In essence, the ultimate strategy for App Store keywords lies in Apple's compliance framework, where meticulously curated and optimized content achieves optimal alignment with user search intent. This is a perpetual data-driven game—only by combining precision strategies with continuous optimization can you stand out in the vast app marketplace, ensuring the right audience sees you at first glance.  ( 7 min )

Breaking News!!! 1️⃣ AWS and Google Cloud officially announced a jointly engineered multi-cloud networking solution, introducing a new open specification for network interoperability. 2️⃣ This collaboration brings together AWS Interconnect – multi-cloud and Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect, enabling customers to establish private, high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between both cloud providers with unprecedented speed, automation, and simplicity. 🌐Region Pairs Now in Preview Support begins with the following AWS ↔️ Google Cloud region mappings: US Regions • AWS us-east-1 → GCP us-east4 (N. Virginia) • AWS us-west-1 → GCP us-west2 (N. California ↔ LA) • AWS us-west-2 → GCP us-west1 (Oregon ↔ Oregon) Europe Regions • AWS eu-west-2 → GCP europe-west2 (London) • AWS eu-central-1 → GCP europe-west3 (Frankfurt) 🟢 This is a major shift in how enterprises can build true multi-cloud architectures, without the traditional complexity of physical circuits, manual routing, or long provisioning cycles. Connectivity can now be activated in minutes, fully managed by both cloud providers end-to-end. reinvent #multicloud #AWS #GoogleCloudCloudComputing #GCP #CloudNetworking  ( 6 min )

I got annoyed that even the minimum brightness on my laptop was too bright at night, so I built this script that uses logarithmic scaling to give you smooth 1% steps in the 0-5% range. Works on Hyprland/Omarchy (and probably other Wayland compositors with minor tweaks). https://github.com/mrdrbrdr/ultra-low-brightness Feedback welcome!  ( 6 min )

Testing SwiftUI used to feel confusing — views are declarative, state is reactive, and async code is everywhere. But now, testing SwiftUI is clean, predictable, and powerful, as long as you follow the right patterns. This guide covers: testing ViewModels testing async/await mocking services dependency injection testing navigation testing SwiftUI views UI tests (XCUI) snapshot testing Let’s level up your SwiftUI engineering discipline. 🚀 SwiftUI views are simple when ViewModels do the work. Here’s a typical testable ViewModel: @Observable class ProfileViewModel { var user: User? var isLoading = false let service: UserServiceProtocol init(service: UserServiceProtocol) { self.service = service } func load() async { isLoading = true …  ( 8 min )

The IMF released a report that campaigns in favor of CBDCs and warns against the risk stablecoins represent, sparking criticism among crypto experts.  ( 33 min )

The White House's new National Security Strategy emphasizes increased global fiscal expansion and military spending.  ( 33 min )

Hedera's token retreats despite fresh institutional product speculation driving broader altcoin momentum.  ( 32 min )

The collapse of Do Kwon's Terraform project caused losses that surpassed those by Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, Celsius and OneCoin combined, the prosecutors argued.  ( 32 min )

With the acquisition, Paribu gains regulatory foothold in Bahrain and Dubai and access to the region's fast-growing crypto user base.  ( 32 min )

VanEck’s Matthew Sigel argues MARA’s valuation looks expensive when adjusted for its leverage and capital structure.  ( 32 min )

Digital-asset treasury plays that once traded at big premiums have fallen back toward net asset value.  ( 32 min )

One possible solution is a new kind of stablecoin whose value is pegged to a real-world, physical stockpile of gold, argues Algoz’ Stephen Wundke.  ( 36 min )

Authorities across Europe took down a massive crypto fraud and laundering network tied to fake investment platforms, deepfake ads and call-center operations.  ( 31 min )

Lower adjusted net asset value multiple means Strategy can no longer issue equity at a premium, threatening its long-term plan to accumulate more bitcoin, analyst Brett Knoblauch wrote.  ( 35 min )

Softer than expected private inflation data did spark some hope that the Friday decline could reverse.  ( 32 min )

Bitcoin Cash (BCH), up 0.5%, was the only gainer from Thursday.  ( 29 min )

In 2026, VTB plans to be the first Russian bank to allow clients access to spot crypto trading services.  ( 33 min )

The incoming policy chief arrives as the crypto industry seeks to influence the market structure bill in Congress, including its heavy DeFi implications.  ( 32 min )

The company's senior preferred stock has rebounded 20% from November lows, with investors apparently favoring that over the more junior issues.  ( 32 min )

The token broke through key support levels and underperformed wider crypto markets.  ( 32 min )

The bank’s volatility-adjusted bitcoin-to-gold model still points to a theoretical price around $170K over the next six to twelve months.  ( 33 min )

Your day-ahead look for Dec. 5, 2025  ( 37 min )

Bitcoin’s early week rally unraveled as sharp ETF outflows, aggressive derivatives deleveraging and muted altcoin reactions to catalysts pulled the broader crypto market lower.  ( 35 min )

The European Commission wants to get rid of fragmentation from differing supervisory approaches in member states.  ( 31 min )

Another $113 million exited on Thursday, putting the fund on track for a sixth week in the red, its longest streak since debuting in early 2024.  ( 32 min )

The prediction market’s move toward internal market making could blur the line with sportsbooks and undermine the platform’s neutrality, experts warn.  ( 35 min )

Kraken VIP members are paired with a specialist relationship manager, backed by 24/7 support and early insight into Kraken’s full product ecosystem.  ( 32 min )

The one-month chart shows BTC still locked inside a descending structure from early November’s highs, with the latest rebound producing another lower high.  ( 34 min )

Technical analysis shows DOGE failed to hold key support levels, suggesting continued downside unless buyers reclaim critical price points.  ( 34 min )

Spot XRP ETFs have now attracted nearly $850 million in inflows since launching in mid-November — one of the strongest altcoin ETF starts on record — suggesting long-horizon capital continues to accumulate exposure.  ( 34 min )

A softer inflation report could lower the 10-year Treasury yield and support cryptocurrencies.  ( 33 min )

The Korean venture firm’s 2026 thesis argues that stablecoins, AI agents, and on-chain credit markets are becoming the foundation of a real digital economy, with Asia emerging as the first region where enterprise adoption is taking shape.  ( 35 min )

Artificial intelligence is now part of daily work for many teams. People use it to write content, analyse data, answer support requests, and guide business decisions. But building AI workflows is still hard for many users. Most tools need code, a com...  ( 7 min )

Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he persevered. He did 4 years of university but attended ZER...  ( 5 min )

The past year has marked a turning point in the corporate AI conversation. After a period of eager experimentation, organizations are now confronting a more complex reality: While investment in AI has never been higher, the path from pilot to production remains elusive. Three-quarters of enterprises remain stuck in experimentation mode, despite mounting pressure to…  ( 20 min )

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements The news: Chatting with a politically biased AI model is more effective than political ads at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates…  ( 22 min )

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an ad for makeup and one promoting the website Pickyourbaby.com, which promises a way for potential parents to use genetic tests to influence their baby’s traits, including eye color, hair color, and IQ. Inside the station,…  ( 22 min )

In January 2024, the phone rang in homes all around New Hampshire. On the other end was Joe Biden’s voice, urging Democrats to “save your vote” by skipping the primary. It sounded authentic, but it wasn’t. The call was a fake, generated by artificial intelligence. Today, the technology behind that hoax looks quaint. Tools like…  ( 31 min )

Three years ago, Chat GPT was born. It amazed the world and ignited unprecedented investment and excitement in AI. Today, ChatGPT is still a toddler, but public sentiment around the AI boom has turned sharply negative. The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this summer to mixed reviews, mostly from casual users who, unsurprisingly, judged the system by its surface flaws rather than its underlying capabilities. Since then, pundits and influencers have declared that AI progress is slowing, that scaling has “hit the wall,” and that the entire field is just another tech bubble inflated by blusterous hype. In fact, many influencers have latched onto the dismissive phrase “AI slop” to diminish the amazing images, documents, videos and code that frontier AI models generate on command. This pe…

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Proton may be discontinuing the long-running Persona, the current iteration of which was launched back in 2016. While it got a facelift in 2019 and an update in 2021, the car does not appear to be a part of the carmaker’s future plans. Paultan.org reports that Proton made no mention of the Persona in its […] The post Proton May Discontinue The Persona In 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

ASUS Malaysia is officially bringing its 2025 version of the ROG XG Mobile into the country. The latest iteration of the external GPU or eGPU, features a new design while acting as powerhouse accessory, initially for this year’s ROG Flow Z13 but also for ASUS’ Ally X and Xbox Ally Series gaming handhelds. First unveiled […] The post ASUS ROG XG Mobile 2025 eGPU Now Available In Malaysia; Retails For RM6,299 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

Netflix has reportedly become the leading bidder to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). According to Bloomberg and other US media outlets, the proposed offer values WBD at between US$28 and US$30 per share, putting the potential acquisition in the range of US$70 billion (~RM287.67 billion) to US$75 billion (~RM308.3 billion). Warner Bros Discovery, the parent […] The post Netflix Enters Exclusive Talks To Acquire Warner Bros Discovery appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

A bipartisan group so Senators in the US have unveiled a bill that would block the Trump administration from further loosening rules currently in place, restricting China from gaining access to its advanced AI chips for the next two and a half years. The bill is called the Secure and Feasible Exports Act, or SAFE […] The post US Senators File New Bill That Could Block NVIDIA From Selling Advanced AI Chips To China appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 38 min )

The Pixel Watch 4 debuted in August with a new Raise To Talk feature, which lets the user summon Gemini by raising their wrist. This is a notable addition, as the search giant’s smartwatches typically lack many of the gesture-based controls found on their rivals. Now, it seems Google is working to bridge the gap […] The post Google Reportedly Working On New Gesture Controls For Pixel Watch appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

The Antigravity A1 drone, first introduced in August this year by Insta360 sub-brand Antigravity, has officially launched for select markets. While it isn’t available locally yet, the company has confirmed with us that it will debut in Malaysia soon, either in late December or early January 2026. To recap, the Antigravity A1 is touted as […] The post Insta360’s New Antigravity A1 Drone Confirmed For Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 38 min )

An enthusiast modder took it upon themselves to further shrink the PCB of the Sony PlayStation One (PS One) and still function. To be absolutely clear, we are talking about the smallest iteration of the original console, which released all the way back in 2000, taking out its circuit board, and making it even smaller. […] The post Modder Successfully Creates Smaller And Fully Functioning PS One Console appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

The realme C85 was launched locally yesterday, even if it starts off as a telco exclusive. That being said, it was launched elsewhere earlier, where it also secured a Guinness World Record. But it’s for “Most People Performing a Mobile Phone Water-Resistance Test Simultaneously”. This record, according to the brand, was validated at the Cilandak […] The post realme C85 Gets Guinness World Record For “Most Simultaneous Water Resistance Test” appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 37 min )

Anthony Loke, Malaysia Transport Minister, and Jeffrey Siow, Singapore’s Acting Transport Minister and Senior Minister of State for Finance, have signed an additional agreement for the Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link. The signing took place in the presence of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong during the […] The post Malaysia And Singapore Sign Additional RTS Link Agreement appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

For quite a while, Huawei had been the only brand to release a tri-fold smartphone. Of course, the recent release of the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold changed that. And now, it seems Xiaomi is looking to join the fray as a new contender. Apparently, the brand’s take on the tri-fold has appeared on the Global […] The post The Next Tri-Fold Smartphone Might Come From Xiaomi appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

It has been over a year since Samsung first unveiled the Galaxy Watch Ultra. While there was technically a refresh this year featuring more storage, it looks like the company may be making a true successor in time for 2026. Dutch news outlet Galaxy Club reports that Samsung will release the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 […] The post Samsung May Unveil Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 In July 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

After years of anticipation and numerous sightings on Malaysian roads, the Nissan Serena e-Power C28 has officially made its debut in the local market. Set to replace the long-serving C27, the new model marks a significant milestone for Nissan, becoming the first e-Power vehicle to be locally assembled (CKD) in Malaysia. At the recent preview, […] The post Nissan Serena e-Power C28 Breaks Cover In Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 37 min )

Dewan Rakyat yesterday approved the Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2025 and the Passports (Amendment) Bill 2025, setting the stage for a more modernised immigration system that relies on automation and secure data management to speed up clearance times for both Malaysians and foreign visitors. According to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Shamsul Anuar Nasarah, the […] The post Malaysia Approves Immigration Amendments Introducing Advance Screening, Biometrics appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra is a yet-to-be-released variant in the brand’s flagship smartphone lineup. While Xiaomi has yet to divulge details on the device, the rumour mill has been steadily churning out leaks as usual. This time, images of what appears to be the handset have emerged online. The device depicted in the pictures sports […] The post Xiaomi 17 Ultra Allegedly Spotted In The Wild appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 36 min )

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Hey folks! 👋 So I have a confession: I'm a bit obsessed with privacy-preserving systems. Last month, while reading ExpressVPN's white paper on their Dedicated IP architecture, I had one of those 3 AM moments where you think "wait... I could build this." Four weeks and way too much coffee later, I ended up with a fully functional zero-knowledge VPN system written entirely in Rust. And here's the cool part: the system literally cannot link your identity to your IP address, even if someone hacks the database or puts a gun to the server's head (metaphorically speaking, of course). Let me show you how it works. Traditional VPNs give everyone shared IPs, which is great for anonymity but terrible when you need to access IP-restricted services like banking, streaming platforms, or enterprise syst…  ( 11 min )

You've seen the demos. Type a prompt, wait 30 seconds, boom—professional video content. The promise? Never hire a video editor again. Scale your social presence infinitely. Turn your entire content calendar into video with the click of a button. Here's what they don't show you: the 47 attempts it took to get that perfect demo. The fact that 80% of AI-generated videos still look... AI-generated. The reality that scaling content isn't just about production speed—it's about maintaining quality, brand voice, and actual engagement. I've spent the last eight months testing every major AI video platform that's crossed my feed. Some are genuinely useful. Others are venture capital dressed up as software. Let me show you what actually works when you need to produce 50+ social videos a month without…  ( 12 min )

The AI agent ecosystem is growing quickly, and engineers often face confusion when selecting the right tools for experimentation, automation, or production workloads. This post provides a simple decision flow that helps you understand where each tool fits and how to choose the right framework for your current stage of development. Understanding the AI Agent Tooling Landscape The visual above outlines two practical categories of tools: experimental and production ready. Each category supports different goals, and choosing the correct one improves reliability, clarity, and long term maintainability. *1. Experimental Tools for Research and Exploration These tools are useful when you want to learn, test ideas, or explore new agent behaviors. AutoGPT, BabyAGI, and HF Transformers are strong c…  ( 7 min )

How to Deploy a Voice Agent for Medical Office Appointment Setting TL;DR Most medical office voice agents break when patients reschedule mid-call or ask about insurance. Here's how to build one that handles real appointment logic—not just "press 1 for scheduling." What you'll build: A HIPAA-aware voice agent that connects Twilio's phone infrastructure to VAPI's conversational AI, with function calling to your EHR system for real-time slot availability. Tech stack: Twilio Programmable Voice (inbound routing) + VAPI (NLP/TTS) + your webhook server (appointment logic). Outcome: Patients book, modify, or cancel appointments via natural conversation—no hold music, no "press 9 to repeat." API Access & Authentication: VAPI API key (obtain from dashboard.vapi.ai) Twilio Account SID an…  ( 16 min )

When working with JavaScript, understanding the difference between for...of and for...in loops is crucial for writing clean, efficient code. While they might look similar, they serve different purposes and work with different data structures. With Arrays: for...of gives you the actual elements for...in gives you the indices (as strings) const data = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']; for (let item of data) { console.log(item); } // Output: // apple // banana // cherry const data = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']; for (let index in data) { console.log(index); } // Output: // 0 // 1 // 2 With Strings: for...of gives you each char in the word for...in gives you the indices (as strings) const text = "hello"; for (let char of text) { console.log(char); // h, e, l, l, o } for (let index in text) { console.log(index); // 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 } With Objects: for ... of doesn't work directly with plain objects (This would throw an error) for ... in gives you key value for each element const person = { name: 'John', age: 30, city: 'NYC' }; // for...in works with objects for (let key in person) { console.log(key, person[key]); } // Output: name John, age 30, city NYC  ( 6 min )

The task is to find the elements that exist in both arrays, given two sorted arrays. The boilerplate code function intersect(arr1, arr2) { // your code here } Because the 2 arrays are sorted, both of them can be walked through at the same time. Start at the beginning of both arrays using two pointers let i = 0, j = 0; const result = []; Compare the current elements, if they are equal, it means an element present in both arrays has been found. while (i < arr1.length && j < arr2.length) { if (arr1[i] === arr2[j]) { result.push(arr1[i]); i++; j++; } } If the element in the first array is smaller, push that pointer forward. else if (arr1[i] < arr2[j]) { i++; } If the element in the second array is smaller, push that pointer forward else { j++; } Continue until the end of the array is reached. The final code function intersect(arr1, arr2) { // your code here let i = 0; j = 0; const result = []; while(i < arr1.length && j < arr2.length) { if(arr1[i] === arr2[j]) { result.push(arr1[i]); i++; j++; } else if(arr1[i] < arr2[j]) { i++; } else { j++; } } return result; } That's all folks!  ( 6 min )

I'll be honest, six months ago I was dreading opening my IDE. Every project felt like climbing a mountain in lead boots. The joy was gone. I'm a data engineer by day, managing complex pipelines and infrastructure at a healthcare ad-tech company. I've always had side project ideas, but the gap between "cool idea" and "actually building it" felt insurmountable. Learning new frameworks, debugging for hours, fighting with CSS, it all felt like work on top of work. Then I tried something different. I'd been skeptical of AI coding tools. Felt like cheating somehow. Like I should be able to build things "the right way," learning every framework deeply, understanding every line of code I wrote. But burnout doesn't care about your principles. So I grabbed Cursor IDE and Claude, picked a simple idea…  ( 8 min )

Looking for Technical Co-Founder: Upgrade running AI Recipe Platform + Blockchain Integration Together I'm seeking a technical partner (not a contractor) to co-found and build two revenue-generating projects with me. If you're looking for hourly rates, this isn't for you. If you want to build something real and share 50/50 in its success, keep reading. I'm Frederick, a freelancer-turned-founder from Belgium. I've built Flavoreer to the point where it has paying subscribers and an enterprise client, but I've hit the technical ceiling of what I can do alone. I need a technical co-founder who sees the potential and wants to grow this with me. Current Status: Live platform with paying subscribers ($1.99/month) 8,000+ recipe database (PHP/MySQL) Active users + enterprise client (supporting 2,…  ( 8 min )

When people first learn encryption, they imagine a simple system where one key locks data and another unlocks it. But real cybersecurity uses a much richer architecture: AES, RSA, ECC, TLS handshakes, cipher suites, key exchange algorithms, certificate validation, and more. This article breaks down these pieces and explains how real-world encryption protects data across the internet. Encryption turns readable data into unreadable ciphertext. With the correct key, it can be reversed. There are two types. Symmetric Encryption Uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data. The same key locks and unlocks the information. WiFi VPN Disk encryption TLS sessions AES A modern and very strong symmetric encryption standard. It is used everywhere today because it is fast and secure. DES An old …  ( 9 min )

Project Structure terraform-project/ │── main.tf │── variables.tf │── outputs.tf │── providers.tf │── terraform.tfvars │── modules/ │ └── ec2/ │ ├── main.tf │ ├── variables.tf │ └── outputs.tf └── README.md providers.tf Defines AWS provider + region. terraform { required_version = ">= 1.0" required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = "~> 5.0" } } } provider "aws" { region = var.aws_region } variables.tf All input variables. variable "aws_region" { description = "AWS region" type = string default = "us-east-2" } variable "instance_type" { description = "EC2 instance size" type = string default = "t2.micro" } variable "project_name" { description = "Tag for resources" type …  ( 7 min )

Parametrizando una sola condición En ocasiones, se necesita verificar el funcionamiento de cierto código que recibe un argumento, usando varios valores. La forma tradicional de hacerlo sería construyendo una colección y luego iterando sobre ellas. @Test("Even Value") func even() { let values = [2, 8, 50] values.forEach { value in #expect(value.isMultiple(of: 2)) } } Aunque la implementación anterior funciona, tiene algunas desventajas: En el reporte solo se muestra el resultado global de la ejecución de la prueba. Es decir: si se ejecutan 1000 escenarios y solo de uno de ellos falla, simplemente se muestra la prueba como fallida. No se puede repetir la prueba con una condición específica, sino que se tienen que ejecutar todas las iteraciones. Ante esta problemática, las prueba…  ( 9 min )

Ejecutar las pruebas de forma concurrente en XCTest es opcional y, de hecho, por defecto se ejecutan de forma serial. En cambio, en Swift Testing la ejecución es paralela por defecto. Aunque no está bien hecho, en ocasiones el arnés de pruebas debe ser ejecutado de forma serial. Muy probablemente esto se deba a que el código a probar tiene algún estado estático compartido entre las pruebas. Considerar la siguiente clase, State: class State { private static var numbers = [1, 2, 3] func add(number: Int) { State.numbers.append(number) } func add(numbers: [Int]) { State.numbers.append(contentsOf: numbers) } func removeLastNumber() -> Int? { State.numbers.popLast() } var count: Int { State.numbers.count } } Las siguientes pruebas muy probablemente fallarán: st…  ( 7 min )

Un proyecto puede tener cientos o miles de pruebas y suites. Cierto subconjunto de estas pruebas puede compartir alguna característica común como ser "crítico" o "inestable". La biblioteca de pruebas de Swift incluye un trait llamado tags para agrugar y categorizar pruebas. Las etiquetas (Tags) son distintas de las suites de pruebas: Mientras que las suites organizan las pruebas a nivel de código, los tags dan cierta información semántica a una prueba, que puede compartirse con otras entre las distintas suites, archivos o incluso targets de prueba. Una etiqueta es una instancia de Tag que se declara como una variable estática dentro de Tag con el macro Tag() que obligatoriamente debe existir dentro de una extensión de Tag para que pueda ser usada en las pruebas. extension Tag { @Tag stat…  ( 8 min )

Learn about the Shopify Shop Mini ecosystem and how to get started building Shop Minis with custom backends. TLDR: Shop Minis are custom, cross-merchant apps that enhance the buyer experience in Shopify’s Shop app. Gadget now has a template that handles authentication, session management, and data multitenancy for Shop Mini apps. Shopify recently announced Shop Mini apps, providing developers a way to provide shoppers custom experiences in Shopify’s Shop mobile app. I’m going to talk a bit about what mini apps are, what is unique about Shop Mini apps (compared to “traditional” admin-embedded Shopify apps), and how you can start building and submitting your Shop Minis. If you need a custom backend or database for your Shop Mini, check out the Gadget template and follow the README to start…  ( 10 min )

Para crear una "suite" de pruebas de XCTest se usa un código parecido al que muestro a continuación: import XCTest @testable import ProductionProject // class SomeXCTest_deprecated: XCTestCase { func testX() throws { // GIVEN // ... // WHEN // ... // THEN ... XCTAssert(A == B, "Expected \(A) but received \(B)") } } Si quisiera hacer la conversión a Swift Testing, lo convertiría así, donde puedo destacar el uso de struct en lugar de class, y el hecho de que se usa la etiqueta @Test en lugar del prefijo test. Por otro lado, notar el uso del macro #expect en lugar de XCTAssert. #expect evalúa una condición booleana que se muestra en el reporte de pruebas y que no interrumpe la ejecución del código en caso de que no se cumpla. import…  ( 8 min )

@kirodotdev # 🍅 Building a Pomodoro Timer That Cosplays: My ADHD-Fueled Kiroween Journey TL;DR: I built a Pomodoro timer that transforms into 5 different "costumes" - from 8-bit retro terminals to cozy coffee shops to RPG dungeons. All sounds are generated programmatically (no audio files!), and there's a secret easter egg in this post. Can you find it? 👀 Let me be real with you: I have ADHD, and traditional productivity tools bore me to tears. You know the cycle: Download a beautiful, minimalist Pomodoro timer Use it for exactly 2 days Get bored Back to scrolling Twitter during "focus time" The problem isn't discipline - it's novelty. My ADHD brain craves new experiences, but productivity requires structure. How do you balance both? While riding Uber these past few days (because appare…  ( 9 min )

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Let’s be honest. Most developers — frontend and backend — suck at structuring data. Not because they’re stupid. Not because they’re lazy. But because the industry taught them to think in screens, not systems. Once you understand this, everything starts to make sense. Let’s break the taboo. Most devs start from a Figma screen or a quick whiteboard sketch — but rarely from actual business logic. They ask: “What JSON do I need for this response?” instead of: “What does the underlying domain really look like?” So the API becomes a reflection of the UI, not of the business. Your tables, models, and routes start to smell like: subtitle isCollapsed displayOrder object.with.20.levels.of.depth That’s not data modeling. That’s serializing your component tree. You know this one: { "user": {...}…  ( 8 min )

When I started my journey in software engineering, I spent a lot of time in the trenches of legacy web development. I maintained spaghetti PHP codebases, patched SQL injection vulnerabilities in systems used by thousands of students, and wrestled with the chaos of loosely typed languages. It was a necessary education. But it wasn’t the future. Today, as a Software Engineer based in Verona, I have pivoted entirely to the Microsoft Stack (.NET 9). Here is why I believe C# and Blazor are the only viable choice for building secure, scalable enterprise systems in 2025. In my early days of building automation scripts and web tools, “undefined is not a function” was a daily nightmare. In the enterprise world—where I now focus on CRM architecture—you cannot afford runtime errors. C# gives me the strictness I need. If the code compiles, it (mostly) works. The transition from legacy PHP to strongly typed C# changed the way I think about data. I don’t just move JSON around; I define Models, Contracts, and Interfaces. This makes the software predictable and secure by design. For years, “Full Stack” meant context-switching between a backend language (Python/Java) and a frontend framework (React/Angular). With Blazor WebAssembly, I write C# on the server and C# in the browser. I come from a background of low-level automation and WinAPI optimization. I care about milliseconds. There is a reason enterprise companies in Northern Italy (and the world) run on .NET. It is stable, it is fast, and it is mature. .NET Specialist. I don’t chase the JavaScript framework of the week. I build systems that last. I am Mehdi Ouassou, a Software Engineer and .NET Developer. You can view my portfolio and projects at mehdiouassou.it.  ( 7 min )

Building a ride sharing application looks simple on the surface. You see a map, a few buttons, and an estimate of the arrival time. Under the hood, though, you are dealing with real time geolocation, pricing logic, routing, payment processing, and safety features. All of this affects the final development budget. When founders or product owners ask “what is the typical cost to develop a ride sharing application?”, the honest answer is that it depends on scope, platform choices, and non functional requirements. Still, it is possible to outline realistic ranges and explain which decisions have the biggest impact on cost. A ride sharing product is usually not a single app. At a minimum, it consists of three main parts: passenger app driver app admin panel for operations and support Each part …  ( 9 min )

By Peace Thabiwa, SAGEWORKS AI Overview The MindsEye Hunting Engine is a production-grade backend system designed to analyze distributed system events, detect failures, group related occurrences, run investigations (hunts), and provide a simple public API for external developers. The goal of the MVP is simple: Public API Endpoint (Live) Debug Counts Endpoint: curl -X 'GET' \ https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:Mx6Nh7jm/debug_mindseye_counts' \ Example Response: { "result1": { This endpoint confirms database health, dataset completeness, hunt readiness, event density, and annotation activity. Screenshots and Diagrams (Insert your images into each section below) Screenshot 1 — API Response Screenshot 2 — Function Stack Screenshot 3 — Workflow Canvas Diagram Screenshot 4 — Database Sch…  ( 8 min )

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We live in strange times for developers. Until recently, our worth was often measured in hours spent deciphering cryptic documentation, fighting with dependencies, or figuring out why an API endpoint had suddenly changed its format. Today, I received definitive proof that the paradigm has shifted. Instead of wasting the afternoon configuring the new Google Places API, thanks to Gemini 3, I went for a relaxing walk in the park. It all started with a seemingly simple task: integrate the new version of the Google Places API into my project. Anyone who has worked with Google Maps APIs knows that the transition from "Legacy" to "New" isn't just a version upgrade; it is a shift in philosophy. The official documentation is vast, sure, but scattered. It talks about enabling the project on Cloud Pl…  ( 8 min )

Developing a new software product from scratch can feel overwhelming. Budgets are tight, timelines are aggressive, and expectations are high. Many teams struggle to balance speed with quality, often ending up with products that take too long to build, cost more than planned, or miss the market window entirely. The challenge is not just about writing code faster but about making smarter decisions at every stage of the development process. The good news is that modern development practices, tools, and frameworks have made it possible to build high-quality software products quickly without sacrificing reliability or user experience. By focusing on the right priorities, eliminating waste, and leveraging proven approaches, teams can deliver working products in weeks rather than months. The bigg…  ( 10 min )

You are at an airport, your flight is delayed, and the free Wi-Fi pops up. You tap Connect, your phone shows the little Wi-Fi icon, and you are scrolling in seconds. No alarms, no pop-ups, nothing that feels risky. But the moment you join that network, your traffic starts sharing the same air as everyone else at that gate. The real question is not “Is public Wi-Fi evil?” but “What can other people actually see, and what small habits keep that from turning into trouble?” Most of the answer comes down to encryption. Modern sites and apps use HTTPS to wrap your data so anyone sitting on the same network only sees scrambled noise instead of passwords and messages. If you prefer the protocol view, this overview of HTTPS from Cloudflare shows how TLS turns readable traffic into ciphertext on unt…  ( 9 min )

What's New Under the Hood? Plugins Plugins for all, plugins everywhere, plugins for everything. Whether With the release of v0.3, every feature of the GoREST core is now optional and fully configurable. Each plugin has its own configuration in the gorest.yaml plugins Here's the list of the first available core plugins: Authentication with JWT support Content-type negotiation Logger Rate limiter Request identifier Security CORS management Health check Benchmark If you need something specific, you can build your own plugin. Here's an customplugin that calculates request duration time package customplugin import ( "fmt" "time" "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2" "github.com/nicolasbonnici/gorest/plugin" ) // TimingPlugin adds request execution time headers to all r…  ( 9 min )

When I started building Ghostly Tales, a minimal, atmospheric ghost-story generator with a cinematic horror UI, I expected the biggest challenge to be the visuals. Horror is all about vibe, pacing, and subtle cues — and bringing that into code usually means hours of tweaking borders, animations, lighting, and interactions. This time, though, everything changed. I had Kiro. And for the first time, I felt like I wasn’t coding alone — I was coding with a creative partner. The Shift: From Writing Code → Describing Feelings What surprised me most was how natural it felt to collaborate with Kiro. Instead, I described intentions: “Make the border feel alive.” “Give this component a haunted glow.” “I want this UI to feel like it’s breathing.” “Make the storytelling container cinematic and quiet.…  ( 8 min )

Quantum Nets: Unmasking Financial Fraud with Unprecedented Accuracy \Imagine a world where fraudsters are constantly evolving their tactics, weaving intricate webs of deceit that are almost impossible for traditional algorithms to detect. What if there was a way to see patterns in financial transactions that are invisible to the naked eye, uncovering complex fraud schemes before they cause irreparable damage? The answer might lie in Quantum Topological Graph Neural Networks. At its core, this technology uses quantum mechanics to enhance graph neural networks, allowing them to capture subtle, non-linear relationships within financial networks. It's like upgrading from a magnifying glass to a quantum microscope, revealing hidden structures in transaction data and pinpointing fraudulent act…  ( 7 min )

Background ChatGPT Projects Allows Sharing of Chat Sessions In October 2025, a feature for sharing projects was added to ChatGPT Projects. Take a look at the following: Project/ Uploaded Files/ File 1 File 1 ... Chat Session 1 Chat Session 2 ... Shared projects allow multiple people to participate in this Project. In other words, anyone can start a chat session and view others' sessions. We usually communicate using tools like Slack or Teams. The genre known as business chat is supported by the functionality of "spaces" or "channels." The revolutionary concept of creating rooms where only stakeholders are gathered, allowing everyone to freely post and view, was groundbreaking. Now, this trend is reaching AI-generated chat as well, with ChatGPT Projects being one example. W…  ( 7 min )

If you’ve ever screamed at your monitor because of a mysterious CORS error… Congratulations — you are officially a web developer. 🎉 CORS is like that strict bouncer outside the club who won’t let you in even though you swear you're on the list. This blog will finally explain the difference between Client-Side CORS and Server-Side CORS, without making your brain melt like a broken build. CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing — which sounds fancy, but really means: “Hey browser, can this website talk to that other website? Or is it a stranger danger situation?” The browser is extremely paranoid. If domain A calls domain B, the browser goes: “Hold up. Who sent you? Show me your passport, Aadhar card, PAN card, and two 2x2 photos.” People keep saying “client-side CORS” and “server-s…  ( 8 min )

Introduction In smart contracts, we often need to allow certain actions only for specific actors. A simple example is a wallet contract: we must authorize message senders to ensure only valid users can send funds. So what options do we have? In this article, I’d like to show three common ways to authorize messages in TON smart contracts. This mechanism is used for external messages. Below is an example in FunC that checks a message signature. It comes from the standard wallet-v3 contract: https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/blob/d97fc197f07bb0070eeb3e6fcb8137a240ea5365/crypto/smartcont/wallet3-code.fc#L7 () recv_external(slice in_msg) impure { var signature = in_msg~load_bits(512); ;; some code var (stored_seqno, stored_subwallet, public_key) = (ds~load_uint(32), ds~loa…  ( 8 min )

After building three different data marketplaces over the past two years, I noticed a pattern: every project spent 4-6 weeks rebuilding the same infrastructure before we could focus on the actual product. Payment processing, token encryption, access control, concurrency handling - it's the same problems over and over. So I built UDAM (Unified Data Marketplace) - an open-source backend that provides all this infrastructure out of the box. In this article, I'll share the technical decisions, challenges, and solutions that went into it. Building a marketplace seems straightforward until you start coding: Payments: Integrating Stripe, handling webhooks, managing checkout sessions Security: Encrypting API keys, managing sessions, preventing attacks Concurrency: Preventing overselling when multi…  ( 10 min )

How to Monitor Cron Jobs in 2026: A Complete Guide Cron jobs are the silent workhorses of modern applications. They run backups, clean up data, send emails, sync with APIs, and handle countless other critical tasks. But here's the problem: when they fail, they fail silently. I learned this the hard way when I discovered a month's worth of database backups had been failing. The cron job was still "running" - it just wasn't doing anything useful. That's when I realized: running a cron job and successfully completing it are two very different things. Traditional cron has zero built-in monitoring. You can log output to a file, sure: 0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh >> /var/log/backup.log 2>&1 But this means: You have to remember to check the logs Logs grow indefinitely (hello disk space i…  ( 12 min )

Overview We'll demonstrate an end-to-end data extraction pipeline, engineered for full automation, reproducibility, and clarity. Our objective: transform unstructured PDF documentation (like Python's official manuals) into precise, structured, and queryable tables using CocoIndex, Ollama, and state-of-the-art LLMs. Document Parsing: For each PDF file, the pipeline uses a custom parser to convert binary content to markdown, leveraging CPU or GPU acceleration for high throughput. Structured Data Extraction: With built-in ExtractByLlm functions from CocoIndex, markdown is processed by an LLM running locally (like Meta's Llama 3 via Ollama), yielding structured Python dataclass outputs (ModuleInfo). Post-Processing & Summarization: The pipeline applies a custom summarization operator, counti…  ( 8 min )

And why native Rive workflows lead to better performance, flexibility, and developer experience. Rive has quickly become one of the most powerful tools for real-time, interactive animation across apps, games, and digital products. But one feature is often misunderstood: Lottie import. If your team has ever dragged a Lottie file into Rive expecting a seamless conversion, only to run into bloated file sizes or broken interactivity, you’re not alone. And there’s a reason for that. Lottie import was never designed to be a primary workflow. It was a migration tool — a bridge for teams with massive Lottie libraries to transition into Rive’s real-time ecosystem. Over time, many teams started using it as a comparison tool or as part of their regular pipeline, and that’s where the issues begin. *Wh…  ( 8 min )

Campus Connect: Automating University Workflows Using the MERN Stack Universities are still dependent on outdated, paper-heavy workflows such as manual outpass approvals, handwritten maintenance logs, and disconnected communication channels. These systems create delays, confusion, and unnecessary manual work for students, wardens, faculty, and staff. To solve these issues, we built Campus Connect, a full-stack automation platform using the MERN stack. This blog covers what we built, why we built it, and what we learned along the way. Most university administrative tasks involve: Paper-based outpasses Physical signatures Manual maintenance registers Delayed communication Lack of transparency Campus Connect digitizes and automates these workflows to make campuses more efficient, tran…  ( 7 min )

As 2025 comes to a close, I look back with gratitude and pride. This was the year I consciously chose to go “Back to Basics” – rolling up my sleeves, writing code again, solving problems myself, and reconnecting with why I fell in love with technology in the first place. Instead of always reaching for the newest framework or vendor solution, I asked myself: “Can I build this myself? Can I make it simpler, faster, and cheaper?” Most of the time, the answer was yes — and the results speak for themselves. 🚀 Key Results Delivered in 2025 Cost Avoidance Through In-House Innovation I repeatedly challenged the question: By building working prototypes myself and demonstrating them to stakeholders, I convinced architecture and procurement teams that we could deliver equal or better solutions inter…  ( 8 min )

PostgreSQL's pg_dump utility is the go-to tool for creating logical backups, but its true power lies in the dozens of command-line options that let you customize exactly what gets backed up and how. Knowing which options to use — and when — can mean the difference between a backup that saves your project and one that falls short during a crisis. This guide covers the 10 most essential pg_dump options every developer and DBA should master. -F / --format The format option determines how your backup is stored and what restoration capabilities you'll have. Choosing the right format upfront saves time and headaches during recovery. This single option affects compression, parallel restore support and file compatibility. Format Flag Extension Compression Parallel Restore Best For Plain …  ( 10 min )

Recently I joined in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive mostly out of curiosity. Everywhere I looked, people were talking about “Agents” but I felt like I only had a surface-level understanding of what that actually know it. I figured this course would either clear things up — or confuse me more. Luckily, it did the first one. My Learning skills 1.What an Agent Actually Is Before the course, I assumed agents were basically chatbots with extra steps. They’ve got: something that plans, tools they can use, a bit of memory, and a loop that lets them check their own work. Once I saw it in action during the labs, it finally clicked. It’s not magic. It’s more like building a small system that happens to think with a model. 2. Multi-Agent Systems Are Logical One of the sessions went into how multiple agents can work together. one plans one does the steps one checks things It felt oddly similar to how actual team projects work. 3. Tools Are the Real Power This was my biggest “ohhh, I get it now” moment. Agents get way more useful once they can: run a bit of code, call an API, look something up, read a file. That’s when it stops feeling like a chatbot and starts feeling like software that can help you build things or automate tasks. My Capstone Project For my project, I built a simple goal-planning agent. You gave a task, and it would break it down into smaller steps and figure out what was needed. Why I choose it: What went well: What didn’t: What I learned: How My Understanding Changed Before: “Agents are just advanced chatbots.” After: “Agents are basically small systems powered by an AI model that uses tools, memory, and planning.” It really changed how I think about AI projects. now I understand why people say agents are the next big step. Final Thoughts Overall, I’m really happy I learned the course.It gave me a clearer picture of how agents actually work and how to build something practical with them. I’m planning to keep experimenting, especially with multi-agent workflows, because that part was really excited.  ( 7 min )

Imagine you’re quietly walking through a misty forest at midnight. The air is cold, the wind is soft, and suddenly… a tiny glowing orb floats in front of you. It flickers, spins, and transforms into a card — a card showing a creature from ancient myths and dark folklore. You tap it, and instantly you're transported into their realm, their personality, their powers, and even their softer side. That’s exactly what our app does. Nothing in the app is random — every glow, every hint of fog, every bubble of dialogue belongs to their atmosphere. We didn’t just write about them. feel them. Now that you’ve stepped in — here’s what makes the design exciting: Category: Costume Contest — a UI-first spooky game rooted in atmosphere Platform: Purely 9:16 responsive mobile web Creatures: Baba Yaga —…  ( 10 min )

Why I’m Scrapping "Genres" (For Now) and Betting on AI Instead I recently sat down to build a standard feature for my library app: Categories and Genres. It seemed like a no-brainer. Every library app has genres, right? I wanted to be able to categorize my books so that if I searched for "textbook," "computer science," or "programming," everything relevant would pop up. The goal was classification—grouping books with similar attributes to make them easier to find. But as I started mapping out the logic, I hit a wall. I realized I was solving a problem I didn't actually have. I started running through real-world scenarios. Let’s say I have 300 books in my library. Since I’m a software engineer, almost all of them are related to programming. If I implement a "Programming" genre and then se…  ( 8 min )

A Nostalgic Beginning Let's rewind to 2003. WordPress had just been born, a promising open-source CMS that felt like the future of the web. It was lean, clean, and anyone could fire up a blog in minutes. I remember trying it out and thinking, 'This is going to change everything.' And for a while, it did. WordPress became the go-to platform for bloggers, small businesses, and even enterprise websites. Then came WooCommerce, and it was a big deal. Suddenly, you could run a full-blown online store without spending thousands on custom development. Life was simple. You had your theme, maybe a plugin or two, and your website was good to go. But fast forward to 2025, and WordPress has morphed into a bloated, plugin-infested monster that's more of a maintenance nightmare than a CMS. Here's the t…  ( 9 min )

Body: Over the past week, I participated in Kaggle’s 5-Day AI Agents Course — and it was an incredible journey into the world of intelligent, autonomous agents. As someone who is passionate about AI but relatively new to agent-based systems, this course opened up a completely new dimension of what AI can do. Each day focused on a core concept — from basic decision-making to building multi-step reasoning agents using tools like Python and LangChain. I particularly enjoyed how the lessons were structured: short, hands-on, and practical. It wasn’t just about reading theory; I got to build and test real agents right inside Kaggle notebooks. One of my favorite parts was seeing how agents could use tools like search or calculators to solve problems intelligently. By the end of Day 5, I had built…  ( 10 min )

Vendor shops on the dark web have become an alternative to large marketplaces, offering sellers more control and reducing dependency on platforms that frequently disappear or get seized. I put together a structured breakdown that covers: What darkweb vendor shops are Why vendors move away from major markets How link verification works Common scam indicators Safe research practices If you're interested in darknet infrastructure or cybersecurity research, here’s the full article: https://torbbb.com/darkweb-vendor-shops/ The guide focuses on structure, risks, and evaluation—not promoting illegal activity—so it’s a solid reference for researchers and analysts.  ( 6 min )

How the Pieces Fit Together Startup Code Application Code Linker Script Building and Running on QEMU Conclusion Bare-metal programming involves running software directly on a processor without an operating system or runtime layer. At reset, the CPU starts execution with minimal state, and all necessary initialisation must be handled by the program itself. This post presents a minimal bare-metal program that uses an ARMv7 platform under QEMU to show how startup code, a linker script, and a simple C program work together to produce serial output "hello". A bare-metal program is typically split into three parts, each with a distinct role: startup code to define the first instructions the CPU executes application code written in C linker script to describe how everything is placed in memory Af…  ( 7 min )

⚠️ Este artículo fue elaborado con el apoyo de herramientas de inteligencia artificial. Utilicé modelos de lenguaje para estructurar ideas, refinar conceptos y acelerar la redacción, pero la visión, experiencia y entusiasmo por los agentes inteligentes son completamente míos 🤖💡. Ahora sí, comencemos. ¿Qué es Agentic RAG? Evalúa resultados. Refina sus propias consultas. Llama herramientas adicionales si es necesario. Itera hasta lograr una respuesta de alta calidad. Esto se conoce como el ciclo maker-checker: el modelo actúa como generador, verificador y planificador de su propio flujo de razonamiento. ¿Por qué ir más allá del RAG tradicional? Sin embargo, este patrón tiene limitaciones en tareas complejas, como consultas malformadas, errores en SQL generados automáticamente o búsquedas …  ( 8 min )

Persian-language websites have grown far beyond simple blogs and news portals. Today, Persian web development powers marketplaces, fintech products, SaaS dashboards, governmental portals, and high-traffic e-commerce sites. Yet building a truly reliable and user-friendly Persian web experience requires a unique set of considerations that many international developers are unfamiliar with. If you’re planning to build or improve a Persian-language product, this guide covers the best, field-tested practices—from typography and RTL layout to performance, UX, and cultural nuances. Prioritize True RTL Support (Not Just “direction: rtl;”) Developers often underestimate how much breaks when switching a UI from LTR to RTL: Icons need mirroring (arrows, chevrons, sidebars) Flexbox and grid alignments …  ( 7 min )

Tech keeps moving fast, but what really fascinates me is how familiar it all feels now. We’re surrounded by tools that learn, adapt, and help us build things we used to only sketch on paper. Yet somehow, it still feels a little like magic every time something new clicks into place. What I love most is that innovation isn’t limited to massive companies or perfect setups. Some of the most interesting ideas come from people experimenting at home, staying up late, or chasing a thought that refuses to let go. The barrier to creating something meaningful has never been lower, and that changes everything. The pace is exciting, but the creativity behind it is even better. Tech keeps evolving, and so do we. And honestly, it feels like we’re nowhere near the peak of what’s possible.  ( 7 min )

I got varying response to my LinkedIn post (one of them I had to block) about software complex systems designed with complexity vs simplicity. To re-iterate Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."—John Gall, Systems Theorist One of the pushback was something in the lines of "Modern systems often cannot start simple because they must satisfy non-negotiable requirements from day one". While there are non-negotiable constraints, this varies from project to project. What I see often is "complexity by default" mindset. While we argue f…  ( 7 min )

Introduction When organizing a project using npm workspaces, the typical structure consists of a single root package that orchestrates multiple local packages and applications: my-workspace | apps |-- client |-- server | packages |-- package-a |-- src |__ package.json |-- package-b |-- src |__ package.json |__ package.json This architecture promotes modularity and code reuse. However, managing shared dependencies can introduce complexity in module resolution, leading to unexpected behaviors - even at runtime - that can be difficult to diagnose. To fully understand dependency resolution mechanics and the deduplication strategies we use, we analyze a practical scenario. We use as a case study a frontend application built with react that uses react-router …  ( 11 min )

Este año vine a re:Invent *con muchas expectativas… y AWS no defraudó. Y sí: Matt Garman lo dijo en el keynote — “The future belongs to developers” — y estos lanzamientos lo dejan clarísimo. Acá van los que, personalmente, más me volaron la cabeza. Hasta ahora, entrenar un modelo “estilo GPT” era un privilegio para 5 empresas en el planeta. Con Nova Forge, AWS abre la puerta para que cualquier organización pueda entrenar su propio frontier model, partiendo de checkpoints de la familia Nova. ¿La traducción práctica? Podés construir un modelo que entienda profundamente tu industria, tus datos y tus procesos… sin invertir una fortuna en GPUs ni esperar meses. Lo que más me entusiasma: Podés mezclar tus datos reales con los datos curados de Nova. Tiene soporte para pre-training, fine-tunin…  ( 8 min )

I got tired of spending hours dragging boxes in Lucidchart just to end up with a diagram that still looked like spaghetti. So I built something different. InfraSketch turns natural language prompts into complete system architecture diagrams — in seconds. How It Works Describe what you're building — "Design a real-time analytics platform that handles 50k events per second" Get a complete architecture — Not just boxes and arrows, but an actual system with proper data flows, caching layers, and failure handling Refine through conversation — Click any component and ask questions: "How do we prevent data loss during failures?" The diagram updates as you discuss. Export documentation — One click generates a full design doc with component details, scalability analysis, and security considerations Key Features 🎯 AI-generated diagrams from plain English prompts 💬 Conversational refinement — ask questions, get answers, watch the architecture evolve 📁 Collapsible groups — drag nodes together to organize complex systems 📄 Auto-generated design docs — comprehensive technical documentation in one click 📤 Export to PNG, PDF, Markdown — real artifacts you can share with your team Engineers prepping for system design interviews Teams drafting architecture proposals Anyone who wants to learn distributed systems by exploring Try it free: infrasketch.net Full story: I wrote about how this tool helped me get promoted to Senior Engineer — the 48 hours that changed my career. What would you design first?  ( 6 min )

A 10-Year-Old from Morocco Builds Her First Fully Working Website Ameena ・ Dec 3 #html #youth #morocco #javascript  ( 6 min )

Catching .NET Vulnerabilities Early: A Hands-On SAST Demo with Puma Scan Static Application Security Testing (SAST) helps developers find security flaws directly in source code—before they reach production. In this article, I demonstrate how to use Puma Scan, a .NET-focused SAST tool listed by OWASP, to detect real vulnerabilities in a minimal C# application. The entire workflow—including code, automation script, and scan results—is publicly available on GitHub. 🔗 GitHub Demo Repository: https://github.com/Vlkair/dotnet-sast-pumascan-demo From the official OWASP Source Code Analysis Tools list, many SAST tools exist—but this assignment excluded Sonar, Snyk, Semgrep, and Veracode. Among the remaining options for C#/.NET, Puma Scan stood out because: It’s designed specifically for .NET a…  ( 7 min )

Hi Dev Community! 👋 I’ve prepared a new write-up that takes a closer, more structured look at Angular pipes. If you use them regularly but haven’t examined how they work internally, this article may be helpful. 🔗 Read the full article on Medium: https://medium.com/coreteq/angular-pipes-time-to-rethink-f616ec84fb8d  ( 6 min )

Why I Chose Vite Over Webpack: 10x Faster Builds & Instant HMR I'll never forget the first time I saved a file and watched Webpack rebuild. 8 seconds. Eight. Whole. Seconds. Just to see if my button component looked right. Then I tried Vite. The dev server started in 200 milliseconds. Hot module replacement happened in under 50ms. I changed a CSS class and the browser updated instantly. No waiting. No coffee break. Just immediate feedback. But here's what really sealed the deal: my production build went from 45 seconds with Webpack to 2.1 seconds with Vite. That's a 21x speedup. For the same code. The same output. Just a smarter tool. If you're still waiting for Webpack to rebuild in 2025, you're burning time you'll never get back. Here's why Vite is the build tool you should be using. I…  ( 16 min )

Lo primero que me impacta del libro es que no habla de criptomonedas como un casino o un juego de azar, sino como parte de una transformación real del sistema financiero. Propone que la era tradicional —el de los bancos, intermediarios, y estructuras cerradas— está quedando atrás, y que lo que viene ahora es algo distinto: finanzas descentralizadas, control individual, transparencia. Uno de sus puntos fuertes es que explica con claridad cómo funcionan conceptos que suenan complicados: qué es DeFi, en qué se diferencia del sistema viejo, cómo operan los protocolos, qué cuidados tener para no caer en estafas, y cómo invertir con cabeza. Si estás abierto a pensar en tus finanzas de una forma nueva —no solo guardar cripto esperando que suba—, este libro puede abrirte los ojos. Muestra que las criptomonedas no son un objeto de especulación, sino una puerta hacia herramientas reales: préstamos, rendimientos, contratos inteligentes, comunidad. Claro — no hay magia. Riesgos hay, la volatilidad existe, hay que entender lo que uno hace. Pero leer algo así ayuda a calmar el ruido, a educarse, a aproximarse a la criptoeconomía con un poco de sentido. Si estás dejando que tus criptos duerman sin hacer nada, o pensando solo en “comprar-vender-esperar”, leer este libro podría cambiar eso. Lo genial es que no te vende sueños locos: te da herramientas para decidir por vos mismo.  ( 6 min )

Storybook 10: Why I Chose It Over Ladle and Histoire for Component Documentation I'll be honest: Storybook is slow and complicated. When I started building the CodeCraft Labs UI library, I knew I needed component documentation. The question was: do I use the industry-standard Storybook, or try one of the newer, faster alternatives like Ladle or Histoire? Storybook 10 takes 8 seconds to cold-start. Ladle does it in 1.2 seconds. That's a 6.7x difference. So why did I still choose Storybook? Because speed isn't everything. What matters for component documentation is interactivity, ecosystem, and deployment options. And in those areas, Storybook is untouchable. Here's my journey from researching alternatives to having 50+ interactive component stories deployed to production, and the real tra…  ( 15 min )

Do You Need State Management in 2025? React Context vs Zustand vs Jotai vs Redux When I started building the CodeCraft Labs platform, I had a decision to make that would affect every component I wrote: how do I manage state? The React ecosystem offers a dizzying array of state management solutions. Redux has been the industry standard for years. Zustand promises simplicity in just 1KB. Jotai brings atomic state management. And then there's React's built-in Context API, which has gotten significantly better with React 19. Here's what surprised me: for most modern React applications, you might not need a state management library at all. This isn't clickbait. After evaluating all the options against my actual requirements, I chose React Context + useState for the portfolio site, with a clea…  ( 17 min )

Email notifications are an important requirement for modern applications. Whether you're a developer looking to automate email sending or build robust email functionality into your Python applications, this tutorial covers everything from basic implementation to advanced features. In this post, you'll learn how to send emails with Python using SMTP. I'll also show you how to send emails through the SendLayer API. How to Send Email With Python How to Send an Email With SMTP in Python Send Emails With an Email API in Python Frequently Asked Questions Simple Mail Transmission Protocol (SMTP) is a service that email providers use to send emails online. Transactional email services like SendLayer provide an SMTP server (e.g, smtp.sendlayer.net) that can be used to send emails through third-part…  ( 17 min )

Building an AI Fitness App in 10 Days: How Kiro Changed My Development Workflow The Challenge I had 10 days to build something ambitious for the Kiroween Hackathon: an AI-powered fitness coach that works with just your smartphone camera. No expensive equipment, no wearables, no gym membership - just professional-grade workout analysis accessible to anyone. The result? Talent Track - a complete fitness platform with real-time pose detection, form validation, ghost mode training, and comprehensive progress tracking. The timeline? 10.5 days instead of the estimated 28 days traditional development would have taken. Here's how Kiro AI transformed my approach to building complex applications. What I Built Talent Track is a Progressive Web App that brings professional-grade workout analysis to ev…  ( 10 min )

Cumplimiento Normativo con Responsabilidad: Evalúe con Cuidado su Opción de PLD con IA/ML En el entorno de cumplimiento normativo en México, la búsqueda de soluciones innovadoras y efectivas es fundamental para garantizar la sostenibilidad y eficiencia en la implementación de políticas de lavado de dinero (PLD). En este sentido, es esencial evaluar con cautela las alternativas disponibles, especialmente aquellas que involucran tecnologías emergentes como la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y Aprendizaje Automático (ML). La importancia de una evaluación cuidadosa Al considerar la implementación de una plataforma SaaS de PLD basada en IA/ML, como TarantulaHawk.ai, es crucial evaluar su idoneidad y ajustarse a los criterios de debida diligencia. Esto incluye considerar aspectos como la trazabilid…  ( 7 min )

Today was one of those days where everything just clicked. I didn’t just learn Terraform concepts, I finally felt like I understood why they matter and how they fit into real-world infrastructure. Compared to some earlier days where things felt abstract. Day 10 was smooth, logical, and honestly very satisfying. 1. Conditional Expressions (Choosing Resources Based on Environment): The first thing I learned was how to use conditional expressions in Terraform. These allow you to change behavior based on variables. Instead of hardcoding instance types, you can make Terraform decide automatically. In my aws_instance resource, I used: instance_type = var.environment == "dev" ? "t2.micro" : "t3.micro" That one line alone felt powerful, It means: If the environment is dev, use a t2.micro instan…  ( 8 min )

Hey Dev.to community! 👋 A few months ago, I would have told you that building an AI agent required Python expertise, understanding LangChain, and managing API keys in environment files. Turns out, I was completely wrong. Last week, I challenged myself: Could I build a functional AI agent that automates real work without writing a single line of code? The answer: Yes. And it took me just 30 minutes. As a content creator and SEO specialist, I was drowning in repetitive tasks: Answering the same customer questions on repeat. Manually checking keyword trends every Monday. Copying data between Google Sheets and my CRM. I knew AI agents could solve this, but I didn't have time to learn a new framework. That's when I discovered the no-code AI agent builder movement. Here are the platforms I test…  ( 8 min )

Designing clean, well-structured classes is a central challenge in object-oriented programming. declensions — a simple way to express the nature of a class and the domain it belongs to. Rather than replacing your existing architecture, Clprolf integrates naturally with it. repositories, services, controllers, entities, abstractions all stay where they are. The word declension is borrowed from languages, where a word changes form depending on its use while keeping the same core identity. declension tells whether a class belongs to the business/domain layer (agent) or the technical layer (worker_agent). Within a declension, synonyms simply refine the intention without changing the domain: agent → active business element abstraction → conceptual domain element simu_real_obj → active entity in…  ( 10 min )

A exclusão de um perfil no Registro do Windows é útil quando o perfil está corrompido ou quando há rastros antigos que podem impactar desempenho ou configurações. O Registro é um componente crítico do sistema, portanto qualquer alteração deve ser feita com atenção. Antes de iniciar, crie um ponto de restauração ou faça backup do registro. Este procedimento deve ser realizado com privilégios de administrador. Pressione Win + R e abra o Executar; Digite regedit e pressione Enter. Alternativa: pesquise por Editor de Registro na barra de busca do Windows. Navegue até: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList A pasta ProfileList contém todas as chaves de perfis geradas no computador. Dentro de ProfileList, analise cada SID e observe o valor: ProfileImagePath Ele indica o caminho do perfil correspondente (ex.: C:\Users\Usuario). Nesta etapa, verifique se existe algum perfil fora do padrão definido pela empresa, seja pertencente ao domínio ou local. Perfis desconhecidos, duplicados ou que não seguem o padrão podem ser removidos com segurança (após validação interna). Após identificar o SID desejado, clique com o botão direito e selecione Excluir. No explorador de arquivos, vá até: C:\Users Localize a pasta do usuário correspondente e exclua ou renomeie (caso precise manter backup temporário). Após reiniciar o Windows, um novo perfil será criado automaticamente no próximo login. Abra o regedit como administrador. Acesse: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Identifique o perfil pelo valor ProfileImagePath. Verifique perfis fora do padrão e remova os que não devem existir. Delete o SID correspondente e a pasta em C:\Users. Reinicie o computador para recriar o perfil.  ( 7 min )

The question: "Can we build microfrontends using only vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (without frameworks like React/Vue or build tools like Webpack)?" Short answer: Yes — absolutely! We can build microfrontends with plain HTML/JS/CSS using simple, browser-native patterns: Web Components (Custom Elements + Shadow DOM), dynamic script/ES module loading, or iframes. Below, I'll provide the complete, copy-pasteable approach for a host and two remotes using custom elements and a tiny global event bus. This solution is minimal, framework-free, and easy to reason about. Perfect as a short engineering exercise or a workshop: lightweight, independent deployables, and easy to reason about. Architecture overview Host: Loads and orchestrates microfrontends (iframes) Products: Microfrontend that emi…  ( 8 min )

If someone told me a few years ago that a tiny digital card could help creators land real brand deals… I would’ve laughed. Hard. And honestly? I wish I knew this sooner. Let’s talk about how you can use vCards not just as a “digital contact card,” but as a mini-portfolio, a credibility booster, and a brand magnet. Yes, that’s a thing. (And if you don’t have one yet, grab a free one from platforms like the free digital portfolio builder—trust me, life gets easier.) Why vCards Work So Well for Brand Deals Brands love clarity. They love quick info. A vCard solves that in one click. It gives brands: Who you are What you do Your best collaborations Your social stats A way to contact you instantly Basically, it removes friction. I once lost a collaboration simply because the PR manager “couldn…  ( 9 min )

Just finished my latest open-source project: CyberToast.js. A zero-dependency notification system focused on Sci-Fi aesthetics. It taught me a lot about DOM manipulation and CSS animations. Check it out on GitHub! https://github.com/hsr88/cyber-toast-js  ( 6 min )

Recent Breakthrough: 'Netflix Replay' AI Technology Imagine binge-watching your favorite TV show and suddenly, the AI can predict exactly how much you'll enjoy each upcoming episode based on your viewing history and preferences. This is exactly what's happening with Netflix's cutting-edge AI technology called 'Netflix Replay.' Developed by the Netflix AI team, 'Replay' utilizes a complex algorithm that creates an 'emotional blueprint' of each viewer by analyzing their behavior patterns, likes, dislikes, and interactions with various episodes of a show. But here's the exciting part: using this blueprint, 'Replay' can anticipate how viewers will react to future episodes, taking into account factors like cliffhangers, character development, and even the emotional resonance of pivotal scenes. One concrete detail that stands out is that the AI has shown an impressive 75% prediction accuracy for viewers who have watched at least half the series. This breakthrough technology has the potential to enhance the overall viewing experience and even help Netflix creators refine their storylines based on real-time data. The ripple effect of 'Replay' is expected to transform not just how we watch TV, but also how entertainment content is crafted and distributed. With AI driving the decision-making process, expect a more personalized, engaging, and responsive experience for viewers worldwide. Publicado automáticamente  ( 6 min )

If you’re building an app in 2026, you’ve probably felt this pain already: too many languages promising “fewer bugs,” “faster delivery,” and “ultimate developer happiness.” Meanwhile, deadlines breathe down your neck, investors ping you every morning, and your team can’t agree on whether Kotlin or Scala will save the project — or sink it. Choosing the wrong tech stack today isn’t just a mild inconvenience. It can balloon your budget, slow your roadmap, and turn scaling into a technical nightmare. And when both languages run on JVM, both promise modern features, and both have strong communities, the choice isn’t obvious. So let’s break through the noise and get real about Kotlin vs. Scala — without sugarcoating anything. Kotlin was born at JetBrains as a cleaner, safer, modern alternative t…  ( 9 min )

As I continue my Terraform with AWS learning journey, today’s focus was on one of the most underrated yet extremely important topics: how to properly structure a Terraform project. When you're getting started, it’s tempting to put all your .tf files in a single folder and just make things “work.” And yes Terraform will still run. But as your infrastructure grows, poor structure quickly leads to chaos. On Day 6, I learned why project structure matters, the problems you face when you don’t manage it well, and the best practices recommended by Terraform to build clean, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure from day one. Terraform is declarative and modular by design. Its power becomes clear when you start organizing infrastructure into reusable components, separating environments, and kee…  ( 8 min )

This article was originally published on the Rails Designer blog Custom elements are one of those web platform features that sound complicated but turn out to be surprisingly simple. If you have used Hotwire in Rails, you have already used them. Both and are custom elements. They are just HTML tags with JavaScript behavior attached. This article walks through what custom elements are, how they compare to Stimulus controllers and how to build them yourself! Starting with a simple counter and ending with an optimistic form that updates instantly without waiting for the server. 🤯 The code is available on GitHub. Custom elements let you define your own HTML tags with custom behavior. They are part of the Web Components standard, but you do not need Shadow DOM or …  ( 11 min )

Three months ago, I tested Kiro's Spec-Driven Development (SDD) workflow and walked away impressed but frustrated. The AI built 13,000 lines of Rust code with 246 tests... that took 30 minutes to run, checked God-knows-what, left CI/CD broken beyond repair, and produced a codebase I couldn't maintain. Fast-forward to this weekend: I built a complete mobile app using Cursor + Gemini 3 Pro + Flutter—structured, maintainable, and shipped in one evening plus half a day. The difference? Let's unpack... Built a Flutter app targeting Android and macOS (mainly for UI debugging) from scratch -> https://github.com/maxim-saplin/nothingness: It shows currently playing media, provide media controls (pause, next, etc.), displays spectrum analyzer using mic Used Cursor + Gemini 3 (and some GPT 5.1 and O…  ( 11 min )

Food waste is a real-life monster. Every year, around 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away—while millions go hungry and the planet heats up. Half-used onions. Forgotten spinach. That single sad tomato at the back of the fridge. They’re not just ingredients… they’re ghosts. At some point, staring into my own fridge, I had a very Halloween-flavored thought: What if no ingredient ever truly had to die? That question became Recipe Reanimator: a Halloween-themed web app that turns leftover ingredients into AI-generated recipes and shows you how much food, money, and CO₂ you’re saving along the way. But building Recipe Reanimator wasn’t just about food. It was also an experiment in AI-assisted development. I didn’t just build an app; I built a chimera of technologies—SQL + NoSQL, Pyth…  ( 10 min )

When we work with pharmaceutical and biotech teams, one thing becomes clear very quickly. The biggest challenges are rarely about the individual systems. They are almost always about how those systems connect. Integration is the foundation, yet it is also the area that gets rushed, patched, or treated like a technical side task. From the outside, integration looks simple. Move data from point A to point B and keep things in sync. But inside a real life sciences ecosystem, nothing stays simple. Workflows evolve, regulations get tighter, APIs change versions, and new systems enter the stack. When this happens, even small cracks in the integration layer start to expose much bigger risks. We see this often with point to point connections. They begin as quick solutions but turn into sprawling w…  ( 7 min )

GA4's default reports are designed for everyone, which means they're perfect for no one. You've probably noticed this. You open GA4, click through the standard reports, squint at engagement metrics that sort of tell you something, and then... you make a decision based on vibes anyway. The data's there. Somewhere. Buried under seventeen clicks and three dimension changes. Here's the thing: GA4 is powerful. Genuinely powerful. But its interface feels like it was designed by someone who's never actually had to report to a client on a Friday afternoon. The solution isn't learning where everything is hidden—it's building custom reports that surface exactly what you need, when you need it. I'm going to walk you through seven custom reports that solve real problems. Not the theoretical ones in Go…  ( 11 min )

Through this course learnt many new things:- Day 1: Establishing the Autonomous Paradigm Day 2: Advanced Tool Integration and External Interoperability Day 3: Engineering Contextual Persistence and Memory Management Day 4: Quality Assurance, Observability, and Performance Optimization Day 5: Production Deployment, Scaling, and Multi-Agent Collaboration Thank you for providing the detailed five-day curriculum for the Agentic AI Systems program. The structured outline effectively clarifies the technical scope of the training, particularly the progression from foundational architectures (Day 1) to production scaling and multi-agent collaboration via the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol (Day 5). This information is sufficient for our evaluation of the program's strategic fit. Sincerely, Atri  ( 7 min )

In this series, I'll share my progress with the 2025 version of Advent of Code. Check the first post for a short intro to this series. You can also follow my progress on GitHub. The puzzle of day 4 was pretty straightforward. I guess it's possible to use a single pass, instead of an iterative approach, but I did not have the time to look into that. My pitfall for this puzzle: The C++ std::string::substr method takes a start and length argument. Who would have known?! I expected a start and non-inclusive end argument. That took me some debug headaches 🤯 #include #include #include #include std::vector loadInput(const std::string &filename) { std::vector result; std::ifstream file(filename); std::string line; …  ( 7 min )

Gen Z Is Plotting to End ‘AI Slop’ and Reboot the Internet to 2012. Your Algorithm Isn’t Ready. There’s a plan brewing on TikTok, a quiet, coordinated effort among millions of users to achieve a single, audacious goal: By 2026, they intend to reset the internet. Not its infrastructure, but its culture. This isn’t a hacker plot or a corporate strategy. It’s a grassroots movement, spearheaded by Gen Z and Gen Alpha, known as the “Great Meme Reset.” Their objective is to deliberately revert online humor to the simpler, more universal formats of the early 2010s. It is a direct and pointed insurrection against the internet they’ve inherited—one they argue is drowning in algorithmic sludge, hyper-niche “brain rot,” and the uncanny valley of generative AI. The movement functions as a declaratio…  ( 11 min )

AWS Unveils AI Factory: Bringing Dedicated On-Premises Power to Enterprise AI\n\nAmazon Web Services (AWS) continues to redefine the boundaries of cloud computing, and its latest innovation, the AI Factory, is set to make significant waves in the enterprise AI landscape. This new offering isn't just another cloud service; it's a strategic move to provide dedicated, on-premises AI infrastructure, tailored for organizations with the most demanding and sensitive AI workloads. Imagine having the power of AWS's cutting-edge AI chips, like Trainium, or Nvidia's industry-leading GPUs, deployed directly within your data center, but fully managed by AWS – that's the core promise of the AI Factory.\n\nWhat truly changes with the AI Factory is AWS's commitment to extending its world-class infrastruct…  ( 18 min )

Digital transformation has become the central force reshaping modern enterprises. Organizations now rely on digital tools to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and deliver improved customer experiences. These capabilities offer immense advantages, but they also introduce complex risks that can undermine transformation efforts if not carefully managed. This is why cybersecurity is no longer a background function; it is now a strategic pillar essential to long-term success. Experts such as Jeremy Nevins consistently emphasize that progress in the digital domain must be accompanied by robust protections, strong governance, and a security-first mindset. As businesses integrate cloud computing, automation, artificial intelligence, and remote-access technologies, they expand their dig…  ( 9 min )

Ever felt intimidated by the Linux command line? It’s often seen as a dark, complex place, but in reality, it’s the key to unlocking incredible efficiency and control over any system. This comprehensive learning path is designed specifically for beginners, transforming you from a curious newcomer into a confident Linux administrator. Forget passive video tutorials; we focus on practical, non-video exercises in an interactive shell playground. Think of this as your apprenticeship—a journey where you gain real-world experience managing systems, automating tasks, and mastering the core tools that power the digital world. Ready to start building your Linux foundation, one command at a time? Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 20 minutes Learn essential Linux file system and disk management skills in…  ( 7 min )

On paper, “vibe coding” sounds perfect: you describe what you want, AI agents do the heavy lifting, and you just review the results. With tools like Gemini 3 and Google Antigravity, that dream suddenly feels very close. One prompt for the architecture, one for the UI, one for the tests… and the IDE cheerfully replies “Task completed.” Then you try to run the project locally. Suddenly you’re installing Node.js (again), juggling Python versions, fixing OpenSSL issues, and debugging why some global CLI won’t start. The vibe disappears, replaced by the very human sound of sighing at a terminal. This post is about that gap: AI makes building projects easy, but your local environment decides how easy it is to actually run them. Modern agent-first tools like Antigravity are really good at: Gener…  ( 10 min )

Hey, I'm starting with a quick dev tip that's been a game-changer for my workflow lately. If you've been working in a team, you know the drill: you create a feature branch, make progress, add commits... and then, it's time to rebase against main. You know what's coming, right? That moment when Git starts replaying each of your 9 commits one by one, and you're resolving the same conflict over and over again. That's painful. Sure, GitHub has that "squash and merge" button that'll compress everything into one commit. Great for merge time. But what about before you merge? What happens when you need to rebase your branch first because main has moved forward? Most of us know about interactive rebase: git rebase -i HEAD~9 This opens an editor where you mark commits to squash or fixup. It wo…  ( 7 min )

Many developers treat communication as an afterthought, yet resources like the public relations services overview show that how you present your work often matters as much as the work itself. In a world where users, investors, hiring managers, and journalists are overwhelmed with information, silent projects quietly die, while well-told stories get adopted, funded, and forked. If you build things that deserve attention — open-source tools, internal platforms, or a startup product — learning the basics of public relations is no longer a “marketing thing,” it is part of being an effective engineer. Strip away the buzzwords and public relations is just structured communication with the people who matter to your project. Instead of thinking about “audiences,” think about stakeholder groups: co…  ( 10 min )

Key Learnings & Insights The AI Agents Intensive was a powerful learning journey that reshaped how I understand artificial intelligence. I learned that AI agents are not just systems that respond to prompts—they are autonomous intelligent entities capable of perceiving context, reasoning, taking action, and collaborating to achieve complex goals. Exploring how agentic architectures differ from traditional LLM applications helped me understand the future direction of AI innovation. The idea of agents interacting with tools and external APIs opened my eyes to how AI can move from conversation to **real-world execution and problem-solving What concepts resonated most with me? The concept that resonated most deeply was interoperability through tools and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The ab…  ( 7 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to agentic AI (SNR201) In this video, an AWS leader explores the shift from automation to high-agency agentic systems, explaining how AI agents differ from scripted automation through their goal-driven, resourceful, and adaptive behaviors. The speaker presents four leadership mental model shifts: governance like a board of directors, risk management like a trading floor with circuit breakers, organizational structure like an immune system, and culture like a research lab. Technical capabilities are examined through intelligence (model selection in Amazon Bedrock), context (knowledge graphs, vector databases, memory types, and Model Context Protocol), and trust (Amazon Bedrock Guardrails with automated r…  ( 29 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian In this video, AWS unveils comprehensive agentic AI capabilities including Strands Agents SDK (5M+ downloads), Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for production deployment, and Reinforcement Fine-tuning for model customization. Key announcements include TypeScript support for Strands, Episodic Memory for AgentCore, SageMaker AI's serverless model customization, Checkpointless Training on HyperPod, Amazon Nova Forge for custom foundational models, and Amazon Nova Act achieving 90% reliability in enterprise workflow automation. Customer stories from Cox Automotive, Blue Origin, Ocean Cleanup, PGA TOUR, and Heroku demonstrate real-world impact. Byron Cook explains Neurosymbolic AI combining aut…  ( 51 min )

🦄 Making great presentations more accessible. 📖 AWS re:Invent 2025 - A leader's guide to emerging technologies: From insights to rapid action-SNR203 In this video, former CIO Arvind and NASA's first CTO Tom Soderstrom address the dual mandate facing technology leaders: delivering operational excellence while championing innovation. They present eight major technology trends including generative and agentic AI, edge computing with IoT, collaborative robots, medical impacts, data analytics, crypto, quantum computing, and energy solutions. The session introduces TechRecon, an open-source multi-agent AI system that automates technology landscape reconnaissance for CIOs. TechRecon generates emerging technology reports and position papers specific to each company's industry, calculating impact…  ( 33 min )

2211. Count Collisions on a Road Difficulty: Medium Topics: String, Stack, Simulation, Weekly Contest 285 There are n cars on an infinitely long road. The cars are numbered from 0 to n - 1 from left to right and each car is present at a unique point. You are given a 0-indexed string directions of length n. directions[i] can be either 'L', 'R', or 'S' denoting whether the ith car is moving towards the left, towards the right, or staying at its current point respectively. Each moving car has the same speed. The number of collisions can be calculated as follows: When two cars moving in opposite directions collide with each other, the number of collisions increases by 2. When a moving car collides with a stationary car, the number of collisions increases by 1. After a collision, the cars invol…  ( 39 min )

HOW I BUILT AN AI-POWERED LEGACY CODE RESURRECTION PLATFORM . Built for Kiroween 2025 Hackathon | Resurrection Category THE PROBLEM: $85 BILLION IN DYING CODE Right now, at this very moment, the world's banking systems are held together The numbers are absolutely terrifying: • $85 BILLION in global technical debt And here's the kicker: the developers who wrote this code are retiring. The This isn't just a technical problem. This is an existential crisis for THE IDEA: CODEPHOENIX - RESURRECTION THROUGH AI For the Kiroween hackathon's "Resurrection" category, I knew I had to build But I only had 72 hours. And I'm one person. That's where Kiro AI came in. CODEPHOENIX does this: UPLOAD: Drop in your ancient legacy files (COBOL, VB6, Fortran, PHP, etc.) ANALYZE: AI deeply understands the bu…  ( 15 min )

Everything Wrong With How to Train Your Dragon In 22 Minutes Or Less is a CinemaSins video that gleefully rips into the film, pointing out every “sin” of this so-called classic knockoff in under 22 minutes. Expect snarky commentary, clever jabs at plot conveniences, and plenty of cinematic nitpicking. They also plug all the usual CinemaSins hotspots—visit cinemasins.com, subscribe to TVSins, CommercialSins and their podcast network, join the Discord or Reddit community, fill out their poll, and consider supporting them on Patreon. Plus, get to know the writing team: Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Read this blog on Signadot. Learn how testing in production with the right guardrails can eliminate bottlenecks, reduce costs and help your team ship more reliable code faster. Staging has always been a necessary evil. New approaches to isolation and on-demand sandboxes have finally made it just plain evil. For decades, the staging environment has been a fixture of software development. And for just as long, it has been hated by developers everywhere. It’s the proverbial traffic jam that every developer is forced to sit in just to get their work validated. Yet staging is no longer necessary; its time has come and gone. Newer isolation methods enable developers to test safely in live environments, providing fast, high-fidelity feedback that is impossible to achieve in a staging environment.…  ( 10 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - WOW Factor What I Built Demo Cross-Platform Magic Interactive Features The Wow Factor  ( 6 min )

In the first part of this series, I covered the high-level architecture and the tools I chose for building my personal website. Now let's dive deeper into the technical implementation, starting with the Terraform modules. To deploy the minimal infrastructure with everything needed on Hetzner Cloud, we need to configure the following components: Network — private network for internal communication Firewall — security rules to restrict traffic SSH Key — authentication for server access Server — the actual compute instance I created Terraform modules for each of these components. Let's go through them one by one. The first piece of infrastructure we need is a private network. For this, I created the terraform-hcloud-network module. This module provides comprehensive network management for Het…  ( 13 min )

The Challenge The Visuals: "Baking" on the Fly I couldn't afford to download heavy .jpg textures for the buildings or roads. Instead, I used the HTML Canvas API to generate textures in memory when the game loads. Roads: Generated via code (black background + white dashed lines + noise). Branding: I wrote a script to paint "ANIMTHEME" directly onto the asphalt texture, so as you drive, the road itself markets the platform. Windows: Procedurally drawn rectangles with a chance to be "lit" (yellow/blue) or "dark." Performance: The Power of Instancing Rendering 3,000 unique building meshes kills the CPU. Instead, I used THREE.InstancedMesh. This allows the GPU to render one cube geometry 3,000 times in a single draw call. I used the same technique for the traffic system and the drone swarm. Traffic: 50 cars. Drones: 50 sci-fi discs tilting into the wind. Draw Calls: 2. FPS: 60 (even on mobile). The "Dr. Driving" Mobile Controls Audio Synthesis (No MP3s!) Preview the project here: https://animtheme-city.vercel.app Watch Demo  ( 7 min )

The All Ordinaries, often referred to simply as the All Ords, stands as one of the most widely recognised markers of performance within Australia’s equity landscape. Created in 1979, it was the first major index that attempted to capture a holistic view of the nation’s corporate market environment. Today, it represents around 500 of the largest companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), providing a broad mirror of economic sentiment, industry movements, and long-term structural shifts within the nation’s business ecosystem. Unlike narrower indices that focus exclusively on top-tier corporations, the All Ordinaries includes a wider range of sectors — banking, mining, technology, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and more. This extensive inclusion allows the index to…  ( 8 min )

The Strands Agents SDK, which was released as open source in May 2025, recently added TypeScript support as a public preview. Developers who prefer Python have had access to Strands since launch. Now TypeScript developers can build AI agents using the same model-driven approach, with full type safety and modern async patterns. This article compares the Python and TypeScript implementations side by side, building a practical example along the way. Because the Strands Agents TypeScript SDK is currently in public preview, APIs may change as the SDK is refined, and some features available in the Strands Agents Python SDK are not yet implemented. The core functionality—agents, tools, MCP integration, streaming—works as expected, but this is an early release. Feedback and contributions are welco…  ( 11 min )

Looking for the top outsourced IT support companies in Edmonton? I took a deep dive to help you sort the best options from the rest. Note: This piece incorporates AI-assisted writing and may reference businesses I'm affiliated with. After spending more than 60 hours researching, comparing, and evaluating top providers that serve businesses in Edmonton, I’ve narrowed down the list. My approach was simple: focus on real user experiences, consistency of service, clarity in pricing, and strong security standards. With my own 5 years in the IT services field working alongside businesses of all sizes, I've seen how the right (or wrong) IT support impacts daily operations. I’ve helped everyone from legal offices to engineering firms choose and work with managed IT partners. My aim with this guide…  ( 14 min )

Google recently introduced Workspace Studio Agents, a powerful way to automate workflows, integrate apps, and create AI-powered task agents — all inside Workspace. Developers can now build custom agents that connect Gmail, Docs, Drive, Sheets, third-party APIs, and internal systems without heavy backend setups. In this article, we’ll break it down in a simple and developer-focused way. Agents are AI-driven automation bots that can perform tasks for you inside Google Workspace. serverless backend workflows running on Google’s infrastructure. ✔ Read & parse emails This makes Workspace Studio Agents perfect for automation and productivity workflows. Serverless automation No servers, deployments, or maintenance — agents run on Workspace infrastructure. Built-in OAuth & Permissions Agents u…  ( 7 min )

Looking beyond the AI hype, a quieter revolution is happening in how we handle data state. Here is my perspective on the stack for 2026. The dust from the AI explosion of 2024 and 2025 is finally starting to settle. While we were all busy integrating LLM APIs and figuring out RAG pipelines, another shift has been happening quietly in the background. It is less flashy, but it solves a problem that users actually feel every day: latency and reliability. Old way: The Client is a view layer; the Server is the source of truth. New way: The Client has its own source of truth; the Server is a synchronization relay. My Project Prediction for 2026: The "Invisible" Sync Engine I am currently experimenting with a project concept that I think will define the next wave of SaaS tools. The Concept: A Col…  ( 8 min )

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that provides advanced mathematical utilities and calculator tools for AI assistants like Claude and other MCP-compatible clients. This MCP server exposes mathematical tools that AI assistants can use to perform calculations, statistical analysis, unit conversions, and more. Built with the Model Context Protocol SDK, it seamlessly integrates with Claude Desktop, VSCode, and other MCP clients. Author: Jefferson Rosas Chambilla Repository: https://github.com/Ankluna72/Math-Calculator-MCP-Server- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division Power, square root, modulo operations Error handling (division by zero, invalid operations) Mean, median, mode Standard deviation and variance Complete statistical summaries Length: meters, kilometers, mil…  ( 8 min )

Microsoft’s Copilot (the AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 and Windows) is evolving rapidly. In December 2025, Microsoft unveiled new Copilot plans, features, and integrations across its products. These announcements arrived amid broader AI industry trends and regulatory scrutiny. We’ve combed the latest sources to bring you a comprehensive update on Microsoft Ai Copilot News Today. This includes new pricing plans (for small businesses and enterprise), free offerings, cutting-edge features (like voice interaction and AI agents), and how to get and use Copilot. We also link to relevant resources, including official Microsoft blogs and TechDecodedly’s own recent articles (e.g. AI regulation news today: key trends and US updates) for additional context. Copilot News Today: Announceme…  ( 13 min )

Key Learnings That Transformed My Perspective 1. Agents Are Architecture, Not Just Features The shift: Moving from "how do I get the LLM to do X?" to "how do I architect a system that can reason, plan, and act?" changed everything. The multi-agent systems codelab particularly demonstrated how specialized agents with clear responsibilities outperform monolithic approaches. Practical insight: When building my first multi-agent system with ADK, I saw how decomposing complex tasks into agent teams mirrors effective software architecture—single responsibility principle, but for AI. 2. Tools Are the Bridge Between Thought and Action What resonated most: Day 2's deep dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) revealed that an agent's power isn't just in its reasoning—it's in its ability to intera…  ( 10 min )

We've been sold a lie. A very convenient, very profitable lie. The lie is that for an app to be "smart," it needs to know everything about you. It needs to upload your habits to the cloud, analyze your sleep patterns with AI, and sync your deepest thoughts across five different devices in real-time. I almost fell for it. When I started designing my latest productivity tool, my Product Manager brain (the ISTJ part of me) immediately started listing features: Cloud Sync! Team Collaboration! AI Insights! User Analytics! But then, late one night, I sat in my dimly lit room, staring at the glowing screen of a server log from a previous project. I saw rows and rows of user data scrolling by. Names, timestamps, actions. And I felt a sudden, visceral wave of nausea. I realized I wasn't building a …  ( 8 min )

Many people may still think of alova as a lightweight request strategy library, which is certainly the core feature of alova 2. For example, consider the following code: const { loading, data, error } = useRequest(() => alovaInstance.Get('/xxx')) This is a typical example of alova being used on the client side. However, alova has now been updated to version 3. Of course, these client strategies remain intact, but it's no longer limited to the client side—it can now handle server-side scenarios with ease. Alova 3 provides server-side request strategies (server hooks) and server-side storage adapters like Redis and file storage, allowing us to conveniently implement full-chain requests and forwarding on the server side. Let's first look at the complete flow of a request: Client (Browser/App…  ( 10 min )

In this article, I'm not going to show you much code. Instead, I'm going to show you how you can build a holiday card collage, complete with a ribbon footer with text, a background, and 5 styled photos with rounded, colored borders in one line using the magic of Cloudinary's transformations. This is way cool, so buckle up and let me show you how I built this URL-generating app for your holiday card-sending needs. You can try it right now here; it generates cards that look like this: Maybe this tool will even save you some money as printing photo-quality holiday cards can get expensive! I have been enjoying building Astro apps, and, let's face it, using Cursor makes architecting this sort of thing a real breeze. Use your favorite AI tool to craft an app that will allow you to upload five…  ( 10 min )

TemplateFame.com is a platform designed to help creators, developers, and startups discover high-quality templates for various purposes. It serves as a curated directory, offering a wide range of templates to accelerate the building and launching process. Key Features: Use Cases: TemplateFame aims to streamline the template discovery process, providing a valuable resource for anyone looking to build and launch projects efficiently.  ( 6 min )

"You're a mechanical engineer? Why are you coding*?"* I get asked this in every interview. The assumption is always that engineering and web development are opposites. One deals with steel and forces; the other deals with DOM nodes and pixels. I disagree. To me, a React component is just a machine with inputs (props) and outputs (UI). So when I built my portfolio (yogavignesh.me), I didn't want a static "About Me" page. I wanted to prove that the web can handle real engineering physics. I built a Beam Deflection Visualizer that calculates stress and bending moments in real-time at 60FPS. Here is the engineering behind the code. The Material Data First, I mapped real-world material properties to JavaScript objects. `// src/components/BeamVisualizer.jsx const materials = { The Calculat…  ( 8 min )

All vector DBs claim "long-term memory," but how long is long? Zep, Mem0, Supermemory... mostly hype. OpenMemory is the only open-source option: self-hosted, local-first. github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory #AIagents #OpenSource #AI  ( 6 min )

One of the most dangerous myths in frontend development is: "JavaScript has a Garbage Collector, so I don't need to manage memory." This is the kind of thinking that leads to Single Page Applications (SPAs) that start snappy but become sluggish and unresponsive after 45 minutes of usage. Today, we are going to look at the invisible tether that keeps dead objects alive: The Closure. To understand leaks, you need to understand how JavaScript deletes things. It uses an algorithm called Mark-and-Sweep. Imagine your application is a series of islands connected by bridges. The Main Island: This is the window (root). The Bridges: These are references (variables, properties). Periodically, the Garbage Collector (GC) starts at the Main Island and crosses every bridge it can find. If it can reach an…  ( 7 min )

Give Me 9 Minutes, I’ll Make You AI-Native In under 10 minutes you’ll learn three game-changing habits—dropping AI breadcrumbs, building an AI swipe file, planning projects AI-first—and a bonus habit to keep your prompts library alive. By weaving ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude into your workflow, you’ll save time, boost quality and never rebuild the same work from scratch. Each tip comes with its own timestamp for quick access, plus links to an AI systems course, essential prompt packs, a Notion command center and more to supercharge your AI-native journey. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

30 Years of JavaScript: The Complete Evolution Guide December 4, 2025 - A comprehensive guide for developers to JavaScript and learning its complete history. The Beginning: JavaScript 1.0 - 1.5 (1995-2000) The Dark Ages: Browser Wars & Stagnation (2000-2005) The AJAX Revolution (2005-2009) The Modern Era Begins: ES5 & Node.js (2009-2015) The Renaissance: ES6/ES2015 (2015) Annual Releases: ES2016-ES2025 TypeScript Evolution (2012-2025) Server-Side JavaScript: Node.js & Beyond Frameworks & Libraries: Rise and Fall Testing Ecosystem Evolution Build Tools & Module Systems Package Management Current Landscape (2025) Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 10 days at Netscape in May 1995. Originally named "Mocha," then "LiveScript," finally "JavaScript." JavaScript 1.0 (December 1995) - Netscape Na…  ( 66 min )

Yesterday I shared how to set up a modern testing environment using Vitest + React Testing Library. Let’s walk through the classic Red → Green → Refactor TDD loop using a simple “Add Task” feature Before writing any UI, you define what the user should be able to do. In App.test.tsx: import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react"; import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event"; import "@testing-library/jest-dom"; import App from "./App"; test("user can add a new task", async () => { render(); const input = screen.getByRole("textbox", { name: /add task/i }); const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: /add/i }); await userEvent.type(input, "Learn TDD"); await userEvent.click(button); // ✅ Expectation: the new task appears in the list expect(screen…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Participating in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course by Google and Kaggle was one of the most transformative learning experiences I’ve had in the field of AI. Although the program was short, it was dense, hands-on, and focused on the future of intelligent systems: AI agents. Coming into the course, I had experience with machine learning and deep learning, but the concept of agentic systems—systems that sense, plan, act, and interact autonomously—was still relatively new. By the end of the program, my perspective completely shifted. I realized that agents are not just “smarter chatbots”—they represent a new generation of autonomous software. In this post, I’m sharing my key takeaways, insights, and reflections from this intensive journey. The Shift From Models to Agents One of…  ( 8 min )

AI's Pervasive Influence: Deep Dive into Health, Market Dynamics, and Platform Development This post explores the multifaceted impact of Artificial Intelligence across various sectors, delving into significant recent developments: Healthcare & Personalization: We examine the potential for AI to revolutionize personal health management, citing Google's exploration of Apple Health integration with ChatGPT. Furthermore, Philips' advancements in AI-powered medical imaging systems highlight the critical role of AI in diagnostics and patient care. Semiconductor Market Turmoil: The escalating demand for AI infrastructure is creating unprecedented pressure on the memory chip market. This section analyzes the resulting supply constraints, price hike warnings, and their implications for the broa…  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections Coming from a business analyst background and only recently starting to learn Python, the AI Agents Intensive course has been a truly transformative experience for me. Before starting, I often felt unsure about how the technical components fit together when building an AI-powered application. This course provided a clear structure and broke down the agent-building process into logical, manageable steps. It helped me realize that creating an AI app isn’t about already being highly technical—it’s about understanding how different parts of a system interact and learning how to approach problems methodically. One of the concepts that resonated most with me was the architecture of AI agents—how they combine re…  ( 7 min )

The Psychology Behind Effective Reward System Design | Rewarders Blog - @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Charter:wght@400;700&family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap"); body { font-family: "Charter", "Georgia", serif; } .font-sans { font-family: "Inter", sans-serif; } /* Medium-style article typography */ .article-content { font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: #242424; } .article-content h1 { font-size: 2.5em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em; font-weight: 700; } .article-content h2 { font-siz…  ( 14 min )

Gamification Strategies 2025: Driving Engagement Through Play | Rewarders Blog - @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Charter:wght@400;700&family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap"); body { font-family: "Charter", "Georgia", serif; } .font-sans { font-family: "Inter", sans-serif; } /* Medium-style article typography */ .article-content { font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: #242424; } .article-content h1 { font-size: 2.5em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em; font-weight: 700; } .article-content h2 { …  ( 9 min )

The Moment Everything Clicked Five days ago, I thought AI agents were just chatbots with extra steps. Today, I'm watching three autonomous agents coordinate in real-time to predict environmental interventions for Delhi's air quality crisis. This isn't science fiction—it's what happens when you stop thinking about AI as a question-answering machine and start treating it as a collaborating intelligence. The Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive didn't just teach me to build agents. It fundamentally rewired how I think about solving problems with AI. The first breakthrough was deceptively simple: agents don't just respond—they act. We started with a basic agent that could use Google Search. But that single tool transformed everything. Suddenly, my AI wasn't frozen in January 2025. It could check…  ( 10 min )

Your shell's history search is probably slowing you down more than you realize. Whether you're hammering the up arrow 100 times or fumbling through CTRL + R, there's a better way. I've used all three approaches: out-of-the-box shell history, McFly, and Atuin. Here's what I learned. Every shell comes with history search built in. In zsh and bash, you press CTRL + R and start typing. It's basic. Really basic. You get a single-line prompt that searches backwards through your history. No context. No ranking. No filtering by directory or recency. Just raw chronological search. If you have a common command you run in different contexts, good luck finding the right one. You'll be pressing CTRL + R repeatedly, hoping you land on the version you actually need. The experience looks like this: you p…  ( 10 min )

I recently built a backend engine to solve a boring but massive problem in e-commerce: Taxonomy Mapping. Watch the demo test: The goal was simple: Take a messy CSV of 20,000 products and map them to the official Google Taxonomy IDs using an LLM. The problem? Rate Limits. If you try to Promise.all() 2,000 requests to OpenAI, three things happen: Memory Spike: Loading a 15MB+ CSV into a variable kills the Node process. 429 Errors: OpenAI bans you for hitting the Request Per Minute (RPM) limit instantly. Error Collapse: Promise.all fails fast if one request fails, ruining the whole batch. Here is the architecture I built to process 450+ requests per minute reliably using Node.js Streams and Bottleneck. Loading a large CSV into memory is a rookie mistake. I switched to fs.createReadStream comb…  ( 8 min )

I recently built Qik Seek, a modern search engine designed to be fast, visually appealing, and easy to use. My goal was to create a clean interface with interactive features that make searching the web and images enjoyable. One of the first things I focused on was the theme system. Users can toggle between dark and light modes seamlessly. In light mode, the background features a beautiful image of the Earth, while dark mode gives a sleek, minimal vibe. I also added a custom cursor with trailing effects. It’s subtle but adds a dynamic, interactive feel when navigating the page. Small touches like this help make the user experience more engaging without being overwhelming. The search functionality uses Google Custom Search Engine (CSE). The search bar adapts to the theme, ensuring consistent visuals whether in dark or light mode. Users can also directly open URLs if they type them into the search box. For deployment, I chose Netlify. It’s fast, easy to use, and perfect for static sites like Qik Seek. I also added proper SEO metadata, schema.org markup, and OpenGraph tags so that the site is well-indexed and shareable. Overall, building Qik Seek taught me a lot about front-end development, dynamic theming, and enhancing user experience with small interactive touches. It’s a simple project, but it’s rewarding to see users enjoy it. You can try it out here: qikseek.netlify.app  ( 6 min )

Introduction Business operations today are overflowing with complex decisions — assigning the right employee to a shift, planning logistics routes, or scheduling limited resources. When these are coordinated manually, inefficiencies grow. That’s where OptaPlanner comes in,a powerful optimization engine designed to automate decision-making and boost operational efficiency. Whether you are running a logistics business, a hospital, or an educational institute, OptaPlanner takes the complexity out of planning. OptaPlanner is an open-source constraint solver built on Java. It enables enterprises to optimize planning and scheduling problems such as employee rostering, vehicle routing, and resource allocation. It integrates seamlessly into custom enterprise applications and can handle real-time…  ( 7 min )

In the world of data science, there is an old axiom that holds truer in aviation than perhaps any other industry: Garbage In, Garbage Out. If you are building a predictive model, whether it’s to forecast flight delays, optimize supply chain logistics, or power a dynamic pricing engine, the architecture of your machine learning (ML) model is secondary to the quality of your training data. And aviation data is notoriously "dirty." It is a chaotic ecosystem of changing call signs, shifting time zones, complex codeshare agreements, and operational irregularities. If you feed raw, unprocessed JSON directly into a neural network or a regression model, your predictions will fail. This guide explores the specific data engineering pipeline required to normalize historical airline flight data. We wi…  ( 10 min )

AI coding assistants have become a hot topic. Some developers say they are terrible and slow them down, while others say AI helps them work faster and reduce mental load. So why is the experience so different? What are some people doing wrong, and what are others doing right? This post explains how AI coding assistants actually work, how to give them the right context, and how you can get much better results by improving your prompts and your workflow. AI models are not magical coders who understand your project automatically. They only know what you tell them. Think of each model as an empty box (its context window). If you don’t fill that box with the correct and relevant information, the assistant will guess and usually guess wrong. Before asking an AI assistant to perform a task, it ne…  ( 8 min )

Java's getExponent() Method: No More Guessing with Floats and Doubles Look, we’ve all been there. You’re coding along, minding your own business, and then you hit a wall with floating-point numbers. Your calculation 0.1 + 0.2 doesn’t neatly equal 0.3, some sensor data looks weird, or a financial rounding operation goes slightly off. You get that gut feeling: “Something’s up with how Java is storing this number.” And you’re right. Under the hood, float and double in Java follow the IEEE 754 standard. It’s like a secret recipe for representing decimal numbers in binary. The problem? Sometimes you need to peek into that recipe. You need to know, scientifically, what’s going on. That’s where the unsung hero, getExponent(), comes into play. This isn’t just another method in the Math class you…  ( 11 min )

Nobody really wants to see how sausage is made, do they? The process is messy, unglamorous, and usually skipped over in the final presentation (and oh boy, are we glad of it! 🤮🤮🤮)… but if you skip the "sausage-making", you never get the "full omelette"! mmm, sausage... ...But we're not talking about breakfast foods today, we're talking about technology! In our world, most people would prefer to focus on shiny new features or huge cost savings stories rather than attend to the gritty details like testing, refactoring, and tooling. But without these "sausage-making" activities, the full DevOps "meal" (with all the acceleration and improvement that we crave) is always just out of reach. My team at work recently went through this firsthand... so today we're going to explore an instance…  ( 13 min )

MySQL uses Nested-Loop Join (NLJ) algorithms to evaluate joins. Simply put, it takes one row from the first table, then scans the next for matches. Add a third table and it loops again. In the worst case, you face O(n²) time complexity 😳. There is good news though, built in optimizations keep real-world performance much lower. Imagine you have 3 tables that you are joining: t1, t SELECT * FROM t1 JOIN t2 ON t1.t2_id = t2.id JOIN t3 ON t2.t3_id = t3.id; The pseudocode for the NLJ algorithm is roughly the following: for each row in t1 for each t2 matching t1.t2_id for each t3 matching t2.t3_id return row if join condition is met Each inner loop runs for every row of the outer loop. You can see how this could get out of hand fast if your tables are big, No WHERE clause, no indexes? Good luck. MySQL uses what the docs call "condition pushdown": the relevant parts of the where clause will be evaluated at each loop level. Meaning, the where condition of t2 will be evaluated on the t2 loop alongside the join condition and so on: SELECT * FROM t1 JOIN t2 ON t1.t2_id = t2.id JOIN t3 ON t2.t3_id = t3.id WHERE t2.status = 'active'; Here, MySQL won’t join everything and then filter by t2.status. It will filter t2.status = 'active' while it’s looping through t2 and will only pass those resulting rows into the t3 check. This is why adding selective indexes is so important for optimization, especially with joins. Indexes help MySQL skip over the rows that are irrelevant to the results. Without them, It’s scanning everything over and over. But even with the best indexes, joins on massive tables are still going to be inefficient. So when you're designing your database, think about the future. Are these tables going to grow? Can you avoid complex joins later? Do you need to denormalize some of your tables? A little planning now saves a lot of pain down the road.  ( 7 min )

You know that feeling when you're trying to get work done and someone keeps tapping your shoulder for approval? "Is this okay?" Tap. "How about this?" Tap. "Should I do this next?" Tap tap tap. That's what using most AI coding assistants felt like to me. I'd ask it to add a feature, and then - instead of just doing it - it would present me with a diff and wait. Like a puppy showing me its toy, waiting for validation. Every. Single. Time. I was babysitting an AI like it was a toddler with scissors. And I kept thinking: "These models are getting scary good. Claude 4.5 Sonnet gets things right maybe 70-80% of the time on first try. Why am I still approving every comma it wants to add?" So I built something different. Something that would just do the thing and let me fix it if it screwed up. I…  ( 12 min )

Terraform is a solution to provision infrastructure using code (IaC). You can use S3 as the backend of the state like this terraform { required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = ">= 4.0" } } required_version = ">= 1.0" backend "s3" { bucket = "terraform-state-dev" key = "my-key" region = "us-east-1" shared_credentials_file = "~/.aws/credentials" } } You can have a single key to store all your Terraform state, or you can have one key for each Terraform state. You can start your Terraform using terraform init After any terraform apply or terraform apply the state in your S3 will be updated. At Woovi, we decided to have one key per Terraform provision. You can use this command to migrate existing local or another backend state to your S3 bucket terraform init -migrate-state If you lose your Terraform state, this can cause significant trouble. Woovi Woovi is a fintech platform revolutionizing how businesses and developers handle payments in Brazil. Built with a developer-first mindset, Woovi simplifies integration with instant payment methods like Pix, enabling companies to receive payments seamlessly and automate financial workflows. If you want to work with us, we are hiring!  ( 6 min )

Hey DEV Community 👋, I’m Ibrahim—a tech architect turned founder, building at the intersection of AI and blockchain. With over 15 years in software and now leading IrusSoft and NextChainX, I’ve spent the last few years diving deep into Web3, DeFi, and decentralized ecosystems. My journey started in traditional software and scaled through roles like Head of Software at MobiTising, but the shift toward blockchain felt inevitable. Today, I’m focused on building tools and platforms that empower developers and creators—especially within the Solana ecosystem. 🔧 What We're Building At NextChainX, we’re crafting developer-first tooling for blockchain builders, including a full Solana Toolset for smart contracts, token creation, and transaction analysis. We’re also pioneering hybrid NFT models wi…  ( 7 min )

There is a famous programming koan by Anton van Straaten: The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures." Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress. On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I…  ( 31 min )

Hey dev.to community! 👋 In an era where AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude have become essential for developers, privacy concerns are more relevant than ever. What if your AI assistant worked completely offline, without sending your code snippets, architecture diagrams, or sensitive project details to third-party servers? Let me introduce you to my pet project — Oxide Lab. Oxide Lab is a desktop application that lets you chat with AI models entirely locally, with a focus on simplicity, security, and full control over your data. It's open-source under the MIT license, and I built it specifically for developers who value privacy. Let's dive into what makes it special and why you might want to give it a try. Cloud-based AI services are convenient, but they come with significant trade-offs: Su…  ( 9 min )

Introduction A typical example: Account A (Consumer): Runs EC2 instances or applications Account B (Source): Hosts container images in Amazon ECR The challenge: 👉 To solve this, AWS supports secure cross-account ECR access using IAM Roles + ECR Repository Policies. Architecture Overview EC2 instance in Account A assumes an IAM Role IAM Role has permission to authenticate with ECR ECR Repository in Account B trusts this IAM role EC2 logs in → pulls the container image Step 1: Create IAM Role for EC2 in Account A You need an IAM Role that your EC2 instance will use. 1.1 Choose EC2 as the trusted entity During IAM role creation: Trusted Entity: EC2 1.2 Attach the policy below: (This goes into Account A, attached to the EC2 IAM Role) { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ …  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps - Hot Design Showcase I built Terra Nova, a cinematic travel discovery application designed to bridge the gap between high-utility booking apps and immersive travel journalism. The goal was to break away from the standard "list of cards" UI pattern. Instead, I focused on Full-Bleed Immersive Visuals, using a parallax-style carousel where the destination itself is the UI. The app features: Cinematic Carousel: A full-screen FlipView experience with high-resolution imagery. Layered Depth: A distinct visual hierarchy using Z-index layering (Background Image -> Gradient Overlay -> Content). I was inspired by the clean, typography-driven layouts found in luxury travel editorials and the immersive discovery flow of Airbnb Luxe. My …  ( 7 min )

LangBot is a multi-platform chatbot framework that supports QQ, WeChat, Discord, Telegram, Slack, LINE, DingTalk, and Lark. One of its most powerful features is the support for multiple AI runners, including workflow platforms like Dify, n8n, Langflow, and Coze, as well as direct integration with OpenAI, Claude, and other LLM services. Dify is an open-source LLM application development platform with visual Chatflow functionality, allowing you to build intelligent conversational applications without coding. This guide shows you how to integrate Dify Chatflow into LangBot to give your bot powerful AI capabilities. A running LangBot instance A Dify account (you can use cloud.dify.ai) If you haven't deployed LangBot yet, quickly start it with Docker: docker run -d \ -p 5300:5300 \ -v ./dat…  ( 8 min )

"Ah, HTML? Isso é fácil. É só um monte de tags. Coloca um div aqui, um div ali, um div em cima de outro div... pronto, frontend feito." Se você já ouviu (ou disse) algo assim, este artigo é para você. Você manda bem em Go, Node.js, Python, Java. Domina bancos de dados, otimiza queries, cria APIs RESTful que escalam, lida com autenticação, criptografia e concorrência. Pode debugar um problema de race condition em produção enquanto toma um café. Aí surge aquele projeto interno, aquele MVP, ou pior, a única pessoa do frontend da equipe pede demissão. Você pensa: "Tranquilo, é só HTML e CSS. Vou resolver em uma tarde." Spoiler: Você vai descobrir que HTML é um dos negócios mais subestimados da programação. E não, a resposta nunca é "mais uma ". que vira pesadelo real <!-- O "es…  ( 10 min )

Introduction Microsoft Azure includes Azure Secure Score as a free tool. It checks if your cloud assets match key security rules. It shows your organization's security state as a number in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Azure Secure Score checks your Azure setup in major security areas and gives points when you complete suggested actions. • Each recommendation has a specific weight based on its impact. Azure Secure Score works closely with: In today’s threat landscape, Cloud Security is not a one-time setup — it’s an ongoing process. Key benefits: • Catches setup errors before hackers strike • MFA status • Encryption at rest and in transit • VM vulnerability management • Network Security Groups (NSGs) These top actions raise your Secure Score quickly: MFA gives the largest score boost and…  ( 9 min )

Client Profile Our client, a U.S. health insurer collaborating with multiple hospital systems, aimed to aggregate and harmonize anonymized claims and clinical data in the PCORnet Common Data Model (CDM) to support large-scale outcomes research and operational analytics. The incoming medical and billing feeds came from heterogeneous hospital and payer systems with inconsistent schemas, variable data quality, and no unified governance. The client asked SciForce to design and implement a sustainable, cloud-native ETL/ELT pipeline on Snowflake that would: 1) Continuously integrate raw source feeds into a centralized Snowflake data platform; 2) Transform them into a PCORnet-conformant CDM with strong data quality guarantees; 3) Enable near real-time analytics for patient demand forecastin…  ( 11 min )

In this guide, you’ll learn 10 easy, practical, and proven techniques to speed up your Shopify store, backed by real-world insights. We’ll break everything down in a simple, conversational way, so you can optimize your Shopify store without feeling overwhelmed. Shopify performance isn’t just about user experience, it's tied directly to SEO, conversions, Google metrics, Core Web Vitals, and your brand credibility. A slow Shopify site can hurt: Page load speed and crawlability Bounce rate and session duration Mobile performance Organic ranking and paid ad quality score Even a 1-second delay can significantly reduce conversions, especially in the USA market, where customer expectations are sky-high. A faster site simply means a more optimized Shopify store, happier customers, and better sales…  ( 9 min )

How a 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course Helped Me Build FoodMate, A Multi Agent Food Concierge When I signed up for the Google × Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, I didn't expect to finish a polished project in a single week. But the course structure, hands-on codelabs, and community support gave me the confidence to build something simple, useful, and real: FoodMate, a multi-agent food recommendation assistant. The biggest idea that stuck with me was that agents are teams, not single models. Separating tasks into agents as preference, nutrition, verification, made the system easier to reason about, test, and extend. The course showed practical patterns: Tool use & grounding (how to fetch external info safely) Function calling and structured outputs (so downstream apps can use results) …  ( 7 min )

The U.S. government's decision to take a 9.9% equity stake in Intel through the CHIPS Act represents more than just another industrial policy intervention—it marks a fundamental shift in how democratic governments engage with critical technology companies. This isn't the emergency bailout model of 2008, where governments reluctantly stepped in to prevent economic collapse. Instead, it's a calculated, forward-looking strategy that positions the state as a long-term partner in shaping technological sovereignty. As Intel's share price fluctuated around $20.47 when the government acquired its discounted stake, the implications rippled far beyond Wall Street—into boardrooms now shared by bureaucrats, generals, and chip designers alike. This deal signals the emergence of a new paradigm where the…  ( 27 min )

The 0.33-Second Coherence Framework: A Timing Architecture for Safer, More Stable AI Systems Most discussions about AI safety and performance focus on accuracy, compute, or model size. But underneath all that lies a deeper variable that quietly shapes how intelligent systems behave: Timing. Not timing as in “speed” — but the micro-intervals at which decisions, control loops, and interactions occur. Across robotics, distributed systems, reinforcement learning, and human motor control, we see a consistent pattern: Instability appears milliseconds before failure. And the instability is almost always a timing problem. This raises a simple question with big implications: Is there a timing interval where systems naturally stabilize? Our research suggests yes — and that interval appears to …  ( 9 min )

By late 2026, the concept of a "trip planner" will have evolved from a passive itinerary tool into an autonomous travel agent. Users will no longer want a tool that just lists options; they will demand an agent that executes decisions, predicts disruptions, and "heals" broken itineraries in real time without human intervention, an evolution largely driven by innovations from every leading travel software development company Here is an in-depth guide on developing a Smart AI Trip Planner App for the 2026 landscape. 1. The Vision: From "Planner" to "Agentic Companion" In 2024–2025, apps were "wrappers" around ChatGPT that spit out text itineraries. In 2026, the standard is Agentic AI. Your app must not just suggest a hotel; it must be able to negotiate the price, book it, and automatically…  ( 9 min )

When I first joined the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, I had curiosity — and a long list of questions. What really is an AI agent? How far can it go beyond simple chatbots? And could I actually 'build' one, not just read about it? **Day 1. felt like stepping inside a new language. We explored the mind of an AI agent — how it perceives, thinks, and acts through goals and tools. It wasn’t just about coding; it was about giving logic to curiosity. The moment I saw an agent plan and execute a task on its own, something clicked: this isn’t magic—it’s systems thinking. ** Day 2. was all about building structure: prompts, memory, reasoning loops. My brain felt like it was rewiring itself, learning to think like an architect of intelligence. Each demo sparked new ideas — an assistant that could write scripts, manage data, or even help run a YouTube channel efficiently. By ** Day 3. I wasn’t just learning; I was experimenting. I began connecting tools, giving my agents “eyes” and “hands” through APIs. Watching them search, summarize, and even correct themselves was oddly human — like watching curiosity come alive in code. ** Day 4. brought collaboration. Seeing others’ AI projects and sharing mine gave me that community spark — realizing everyone’s building towards the same dream: creating digital minds that work with us, not just for us. Finally, on ** Day 5. it all came together. My first real agent — a small system that could plan content ideas for YouTube — ran successfully. That moment felt like handing over a notebook to a curious digital partner. I walked away not just with skills, but with vision: AI agents aren’t the future… they’re the new teammates.  ( 7 min )

TL;DR: We can use Amazon API Gateway's WebSocket API to keep the front-end up to date with the latest data, providing a near-real-time alternative to polling a REST API endpoint for status notifications. 1. The scenario 2.1. Requirements 2.2. Options 2.3. Diagram 3. Pre-requisites 4.1. Ingestion 4.2. Click data persistence 4.3. Dashboard connection 4.4. Persisting connection IDs 4.5. Retrieving data from the table 4.6. Broadcasting click data 4.7. Receiving click results 5.1. No need for a REST API? 5.2. Asynchronous workflows 5.3. Flexibility 6. Summary Suppose we operate a click data processing application. Customers interact with links and buttons on our page, and the application records the number and type of clicks. Our application also features a dashboard where authorized users moni…  ( 13 min )

Artificial intelligence has shifted from static prompt–response patterns to systems capable of taking structured actions. These systems are known as AI agents. Although the term is often stretched in marketing, the underlying architecture is practical and grounded in well-understood software principles. _I took the 5-day AI agents intensive course with Google and Kaggle, and I promised myself to document what I learned each day. This article will be part of a 5-part series where I go through each day with what I have learned and share my knowledge with you. Now, this article outlines the foundational concepts needed to build an AI agent. It also sets the stage for subsequent posts that will explore implementation details, tool integration, orchestration, governance, and evaluation. This …  ( 10 min )

Bu yazı, Liman MYS eklenti şablonunu kullanarak, Basic Authentication (Kullanıcı Adı/Şifre) ile korunan bir Elasticsearch API'sine bağlanmayı ve veri çekmeyi adım adım anlatır. Bu rehber, zaten çalışan bir Liman MYS geliştirme ortamınız olduğunu varsayar. Eğer henüz sunucunuza SSH ile bağlanmadıysanız, liman kullanıcısı için yetkilendirme yapmadıysanız, VS Code Remote - SSH eklentisini kurmadıysanız veya Node.js/pnpm kurulumunu tamamlamadıysanız, lütfen öncelikle aşağıdaki rehberi okuyun: ➡️ Referans: Liman MYS Eklentisi Geliştirme Ortamı Sorun Rehberi Bu rehberdeki adımları tamamladıktan sonra buradan devam edebilirsiniz. db.json) Amacımız Eklentimizin, bağlanacağı API'nin adresini, kullanıcı adını ve şifresini Liman arayüzünden güvenli bir şekilde almasını sağlamak. db.json dosyası, Li…  ( 12 min )

Введение 👁️ Представления (Views) Упрощение (Simplifying) Агрегация (Aggregating) Common Table Expression (CTE, Общее Табличное Выражение) 🧱 Разделение (Partitioning) Мы уже научились как создавать базы данных и добавлять данные. Теперь мы рассмотрим способы получения представлений (View) данных. авторы авторы_книги книги +----+----------------+ +----------+----------+ +----+----------------+ | id | имя | | автор_id | книга_id | | id | название | +----+----------------+ +----------+----------+ +----+----------------+ | 23 | Ева Балтасар | | 23 | 1 | | 1 | Валун | +----+----------------+ +----------+----------+ +----+----------------+ | 31 | Хан Кан | | 31 | 74 | | 74 | Белая книга | +----+--…  ( 11 min )

In the Glass, Ceramics & Concrete Manufacturing sector, kiln performance is more than an operational requirement—it is a competitive advantage. Small to mid-sized manufacturers across the United States rely on kilns to support high-temperature processes that define product quality, production speed, and profitability. Yet despite how essential they are, kilns are often one of the most overlooked components when companies evaluate efficiency, energy costs, maintenance budgets, and workforce productivity. At BrightPath Associates LLC, we work closely with companies that face these exact challenges. Whether it’s identifying operational leaders who understand refractory systems or sourcing engineers who can optimize kiln design, we consistently see a direct relationship between kiln efficiency…  ( 9 min )

The regulatory landscape for waste management in the UK and EU is undergoing a significant transformation. Governments are increasingly emphasising environmental sustainability and the circular economy, compelling organisations to re-evaluate their strategies at the highest levels. This isn't merely about operational tweaks; it demands a fundamental reassessment of risk management, capital investment, and organisational capability by commercial property owners and portfolio managers. Understanding and responding to these new waste directives is now a critical boardroom discussion, impacting everything from compliance to competitive advantage. The European Union's 2025 revision of the Waste Framework Directive, effective from October 2025, introduces stringent new requirements. These includ…  ( 9 min )

If you’re a blogger or content creator, you might already know how powerful Pinterest can be — but many underestimate its potential to drive consistent, long-term traffic. Unlike other social media platforms, Pinterest works more like a search engine than a feed, meaning your content can keep attracting visitors months or even years after you post. Here’s a step-by-step guide to leveraging Pinterest effectively to boost your blog traffic. Start by making your profile professional and searchable: Use your blog name or brand as your profile name Include a clear profile picture or logo Write a keyword-rich bio describing your niche Add your blog link in the website section A complete profile builds credibility and helps Pinterest understand your niche for better search placement. Your pin is …  ( 7 min )

Liman MYS, sunucu yönetimini kolaylaştıran güçlü bir platform olmasının yanı sıra, esnek eklenti altyapısıyla da öne çıkar. Bu rehberde, "Liman Extension Template" adını vereceğimiz hazır bir eklenti şablonunu kullanarak, kod değişikliklerimizi anında Liman arayüzünde görebileceğimiz profesyonel bir geliştirme ortamını nasıl kuracağımızı adım adım inceleyeceğiz. Geliştirme ortamını kurmadan önce, üzerinde çalışacağımız eklentinin Liman tarafından tanınması gerekir. Bu nedenle, hazır eklenti şablonumuzu sisteme yüklüyoruz. Liman MYS web arayüzünde oturum açın ve sağ üst köşedeki Ayarlar simgesine tıklayın. Açılan menüden Sistem Ayarları seçeneğine ve ardından sol menüden Eklentiler sekmesine gidin. Yükle butonuna tıklayarak bilgisayarınızdaki .zip uzantılı eklenti şablonu dosyasını seçi…  ( 11 min )

GUIA PRACTICA DESDE 0 PARA PROYECTOS EN HIBERNATE USANDO JAVA HibernateUtil.java package org.example; import org.hibernate.SessionFactory; import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration; public class HibernateUtil { private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory(); private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() { try { return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory(); } catch (Throwable ex) { System.err.println("Error en la creacion de SessionFactory: " + ex); throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex); } } public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() { return sessionFactory; } public static void shutdown() { getSessionFactory().close(); } …  ( 7 min )

According to Coinbase analysts’ State of Crypto Q2 2025 report, the share of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using cryptocurrency has doubled in a year: 34% of companies now work with digital assets (up from 17% in 2024) Stablecoin usage jumped from 8% → 18% Businesses accepting or making crypto payments rose from 16% → 32% In short: crypto adoption isn’t “coming someday.” For a global SMB, stablecoins are basically wire transfers… minus the 3-day wait, minus the $40 fee, minus the headache. Businesses learned this the hard way: when you send a stablecoin, it lands in seconds, not “between Monday and maybe Thursday.” The real MVPs of crypto adoption are On/Off-Ramps - the tools that let businesses convert fiat → crypto → fiat without a PhD in DeFi. Some of the most widely used…  ( 7 min )

Good hosting isn’t just about servers, SSDs, or uptime — it’s also about support. Whether you're launching a client website, managing a high-traffic app, or running your own blog, the quality of a hosting provider’s customer support can make all the difference. InterServer is known for being one of the more straightforward hosting companies out there, but what does their customer support really look like? Here’s a breakdown of what users and developers can expect. InterServer’s support team is available around the clock. Instead of being routed through layers of automated chatbots, users often interact with real human technicians. Why this matters: Faster diagnosis of issues Clearer explanations Less frustration for beginners and advanced users alike For developers, getting help from someo…  ( 7 min )

The conversation around artificial intelligence is shifting from passive tools to active partners. By 2026, agentic AI will redefine how businesses operate and defend themselves against threats. These autonomous systems don't just follow commands; they understand goals, create plans, and execute complex tasks with minimal human input. This leap beyond traditional automation enables adaptive, context-aware responses at a scale previously unimaginable. For enterprise and cybersecurity leaders, understanding the coming key agentic AI trends for enterprise and cybersecurity 2026 isn't just about staying current—it's about strategic survival and gaining a decisive competitive edge. As we look toward 2026, the concept of AI is moving beyond chatbots and analytics engines. We are entering an era …  ( 13 min )

Your application must accept user‑uploaded video files (average size ≈ 150 MB, peak size ≈ 1 GB) and store them in Amazon S3. Requirements: Direct client upload (no server‑side proxy) with minimal latency. Server‑side validation of file type and size before the object becomes publicly accessible. Automatic virus scanning after upload. Retention policy: keep objects for 90 days, then archive to Glacier Deep Archive. Access control: only authenticated users can read their own files; no public read access. Design the S3 architecture and supporting AWS services to satisfy these constraints. Include the steps a client follows, the AWS resources you would configure (cost, latency, complexity). Client requests a pre‑signed PUT URL from your backend API (e.g., /upload-url?filename=video.m…  ( 8 min )

Things are finally moving again! 🚢 the Cloud Native Engineer newsletter is back in full swing after a quiet year. Here's what's been happening: ✨ Brand new logo that better represents what we're all about The cargo is loaded, and we're ready to sail into more technical deep dives, practical insights, and cloud-native goodness. Thanks for sticking with me during the quieter period. Exciting things ahead!  ( 6 min )

A simple case study on what works, what doesn’t, and what designers learned from it. The Liquid Glass UI trend has suddenly become the center of every design conversation. Apple introduced it with iOS 26, and the style spread fast. It looks soft, modern, and a little futuristic. But the real question is simple: Is it actually useful or just visually exciting? Let’s break it down with a real example and the core facts. Liquid Glass UI creates a frosted-glass feeling using blur, transparency, and depth. It looks like smooth layers floating over the background. Apple mostly uses it in navigation bars, panels, and overlays to separate content without adding heavy shadows. Many people compare it with glassmorphism, but they are not the same. Glassmorphism is broad and sometimes looks artificial…  ( 8 min )

Why Exchange Access Needs Protection Coinbase, Bybit, and Binance are three major players in the crypto industry with millions of users. But in 2025, they face new challenges: increased government control, blocks in various countries, DDoS attacks, and data leak risks. A VPN has ceased to be optional and become a critical tool for asset protection and stable trading. The key point: using a VPN to protect your connection to crypto exchanges is legal in most countries and recommended by security experts. Coinbase — exchange for beginners Learn more about VPN for Coinbase Bybit — derivatives platform Learn more about VPN for Bybit Binance — largest crypto exchange VPN provides access and protects API keys from interception. Learn more about VPN for Binance 1. Crypto traders in restricted co…  ( 8 min )

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of those buzzwords that's everywhere, but how many of us truly understand the architecture, protocols, and practical implications? Today, I'm breaking down IoT from both a technical and practical perspective—whether you're a developer looking to build IoT solutions or just curious about how your smart devices actually work. 🎯 What We'll Cover IoT architecture and data flow Communication protocols (MQTT, CoAP, HTTP/HTTPS) Edge computing vs. cloud processing Security considerations for developers Real-world implementation examples APIs and integration patterns Future trends (5G, AI/ML integration) 🏗️ The Technical Architecture IoT systems typically follow a four-layer architecture: 1. Perception Layer (Sensors/Actuators) Data collection through sensors P…  ( 8 min )

Over the last week, I’ve had one of the most eye-opening learning experiences thanks to the Google x Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive. Going into the course, I had a very traditional understanding of Large Language Models: powerful tools that generate text, write code, summarize documents, and answer questions. By the end of the intensive, that view felt almost outdated. This post is my reflection on what I learned, the ideas that stuck with me, and the capstone project I built: a Market Sentiment Monitoring and Alert Agent. 🌟 The Turning Point: Understanding Tools + Reasoning The biggest “aha!” moment for me was understanding how agents use ReAct loops — the combination of Reasoning + Acting. Before the course, if I asked an LLM, “What’s the current market sentiment?” it would give a gen…  ( 8 min )

Before Submission articles plagarism check is mandatory it is the play critical role in the Publications...... Research Progress Techlonogy Plagiarisms  ( 5 min )

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way software is designed, developed, and tested. For years, engineering teams have relied on manual processes, human created assertions, and extensive QA cycles to validate their products. Today, AI powered testing tools are changing that reality by accelerating test creation, improving accuracy, and enabling teams to validate complex workflows that traditional methods often fail to cover. As modern applications depend on distributed services, microservice based logic, and rapid delivery pipelines, the need for reliable automated testing has grown. AI is becoming a force multiplier, supporting developers and QA engineers through all stages of the testing lifecycle, from small units of logic to the full customer journey. Unit tests represent the b…  ( 8 min )

Choosing the right hosting provider can make or break a website — especially for small businesses, startups, and developers managing multiple client projects. InterServer is one of those underrated hosting platforms that consistently delivers strong performance, solid security, and honest pricing. But beyond features, what really proves a hosting provider’s value is what real businesses experience after switching. Here’s a breakdown of how different types of businesses have grown with InterServer — and what developers can learn from their success. Many small businesses struggle with slow sites, downtime, and confusing renewal fees on other hosting platforms. After switching to InterServer, business owners often report: Faster load times thanks to LiteSpeed and SSD storage Better uptime con…  ( 7 min )

I met Florian Enner a few times at Devoxx in Belgium, and each time he amazed me with his JavaFX demos! He is one of those rare developers who take JavaFX to the next level by adding 3D visualizations. About Florian Florian works on software libraries and applications that are aimed at simplifying development of robotic systems. For example, he has worked on an API for MATLAB that is capable of low-latency real-time control of high degree of freedom systems. It allows engineers without a strong background in computer science to develop sophisticated control algorithms without requiring knowledge of C/C++ or code generation. You can find him on: LinkedIn GitHub Talk at Devoxx BE 2025 YouTube Channel In the video, Florian shows some of the JavaFX applications he has created to visualize the movements of robots in a 3D environment and the measurements of sensors in charts capable of rendering millions of data points. Based on the same code, he has created desktop and mobile applications that can receive the UDP messages directly from the devices and render the same charts and 3D. He also demonstrates styling with AtlantaFX, the use of SceneBuilder, and how he compiles JavaFX views to native libraries so they can be integrated in C/C++ projects to visualize big amounts of data. 00:00 Who is Florian 01:53 Demo of the robot visualization application 04:06 Displaying large amounts of data in (scientific) charts Library: ChartFX 07:26 3D in JavaFX Library: FXyz3D FXyz Issue "Contributing 3D Canvas and improved CubeWorld?" Blog post: JavaFX 3D - A Look Back Through History & Some Experiments 09:41 Most challenging parts of the application 10:09 History of the layout 11:34 Design in SceneBuilder with includes to create components 13:40 Styling with AtlantaFX Library: AtlantaFX 15:04 Using the same UI on mobile devices 16:49 Why a desktop application? 17:29 More demos! 25:23 Demo videos on YouTube 27:23 Combining JavaFX as a C library in a C++ project Click here for more posts with JFX In Action videos.  ( 10 min )

Walk into a Target or Walmart these days and you'll notice something different. Fewer lines. More kiosks. Robots rolling down aisles scanning shelves. What felt like sci-fi five years ago is now just... Tuesday. The retail automation market hit $29 billion in 2024. By 2034? We're looking at nearly $72 billion. That's not hype—that's retailers voting with their wallets because automation actually works. Consider what's driving this shift. Automating a distribution center can double productivity while cutting labor needs in half. Fulfillment centers are seeing 60% cost reductions. Self-checkout alone is expected to handle 40% of all retail transactions globally by 2026. Those aren't incremental improvements. That's a fundamental rewiring of how stores operate. The labor shortage conversation…  ( 7 min )

Following the recent announcement of the retirement of the popular Kubernetes Ingress controller, Ingress-Nginx, it is advisable that administrators explore alternatives. While other controllers like Traefik, nginx-ingress, are still good options at the moment, it is clear the community is moving away from Ingress as Kubernetes have made it known that the API itself is no longer actively developed. Kubernetes is a popular cloud-native platform for deploying, scaling, and managing containerised applications. By default, applications deployed in a Kubernetes cluster are not exposed to the internet, so you need a way to make them accessible and a central way to route traffic to the specific services running in the cluster. This is the solution that Ingress provides. For years, Ingress has han…  ( 9 min )

You are building a public REST API that invokes a Go‑based Lambda function via API Gateway (REST API). The API must meet the following security requirements: Only authenticated clients with a JWT issued by a custom OAuth2 provider can call the endpoint. The Lambda function should have least‑privilege access: it must read from a specific DynamoDB table and write logs to CloudWatch, but nothing else. The API should enforce per‑method throttling (e.g., 100 RPS for GET, 20 RPS for POST) and protect against injection attacks. Describe the complete configuration you would apply—including API Gateway authorizer, IAM roles/policies, and any additional AWS services—to satisfy these requirements. Highlight any trade‑offs or operational considerations. Step Action Create a Lambda authorize…  ( 7 min )

This article was originally written by Serena Sensini in Italian and published on theRedCode. It was translated and reposted with her permission. In the world of software development, clear documentation and fast bug resolution through shared debugging are key factors for the success of any project, especially in teams working across multiple stacks with fast release cycles. Imagine, for simplicity, that you’re building an app to search for emojis using their Italian names (e.g. 😘 EN = Kiss, IT = Bacio). In other words, a system offering emoji filtering and suggestion features through APIs, paired with a dynamic interface and smooth user experience. This scenario highlights the tension between an agile workflow and typical obstacles: when application glitches or integration issues arise, …  ( 9 min )

We are welcoming you to our weekly digest! Here, we discuss the latest trends and advancements in account abstraction, chain abstraction and everything related, as well as bring some insights from Etherspot’s kitchen. The latest news we'll cover: Ethereum Raises Block Gas Limit to 60M Ahead of Fusaka Upgrade Ethereum Foundation Unveils Full Vision and Mechanics Behind EIL Arbitrum Publishes Unified Guidelines for ARBOS Upgrades on Orbit Chains Soneium and Sony Launch IRC App for On-Chain Fan Identity Please fasten your belts! Ethereum’s block gas limit has been increased from 45 million to 60 million, marking the highest capacity seen in about four years, a significant milestone for Layer-1 scalability just days before the scheduled Fusaka upgrade. The increase was triggered automatically …  ( 10 min )

I decided to stop using Twitter, but for my own content and supporting Ukraine against its barbarian invaders, I understood the contemporary media landscape was quite fragmented. I bet on Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. My flow is the following: when I read a piece I find interesting, I schedule it for publication. The problem is that every social media platform has a different scheduler: Mastodon has the Mastodon scheduler, LinkedIn has an in-built feature, and Bluesky has... nothing. I had enough. Hence, I started building an application to schedule posts across multiple social media platforms. Details are irrelevant to this post. Suffice to say, modules are running in a Docker container on my Synology NAS at home. It's a .local name to access when I'm at home. However, I'll soon travel…  ( 8 min )

I'm excited to share Numla, a new open-source project I've been working on. It's a minimal, privacy-focused calculator notepad that lets you solve problems the way you think about them—using natural language. Traditional calculators are great for quick arithmetic, but they lack context. Spreadsheets are powerful but can be overkill for everyday tasks. I wanted something in between: a scratchpad where I could type out my thoughts and have the math happen automatically. Inspired by tools like Numi and Soulver, Numla combines a text editor with a powerful math engine. You can mix text and calculations freely, making it perfect for budgeting, unit conversions, or just quick back-of-the-napkin math. Forget about strict syntax. Just type what you mean: Rent: $1,200 Utilities: $150 Groceries: $400 sum → $1,750 Numla handles over 50 currencies with live exchange rates, plus unit conversions for length, temperature, and more. $500 in EUR → € 460 100 fahrenheit in celsius → 37.78 celsius 5 km to miles → 3.1 miles In an era of cloud-everything, Numla takes a different approach. Your data never leaves your device. Everything is stored locally in your browser using localStorage. There are no servers, no accounts, and absolutely no tracking. Variables: Define constants like $rate = 75 and use them later. Date Math: Calculate deadlines easily (today + 2 weeks). Timezones: Check the time across the globe (time in Tokyo). Spotlight Search: Press Cmd+K to instantly jump between notes. Focus Mode: Hide the UI to focus purely on your numbers. Numla is built with Vanilla JavaScript and Tailwind CSS, ensuring it remains lightweight and fast. It leverages powerful libraries like mathjs for calculation and chrono-node for natural language date parsing. Numla is open source and available on GitHub. I'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think! 👉 View on GitHub  ( 7 min )

Learn how to implement a centralized mutation system for multi-tenant SaaS using Next.js Server Actions. Explore RBAC, multi-subdomain handling, cache revalidation, and scalable API patterns for secure, maintainable backend architecture. A. Architecture Overview In large SaaS projects, handling server actions individually in every module creates: 1- Code duplication The centralized mutation engine consolidates all API mutations into one reusable function. It handles authentication, authorization, shop/subdomain context, request payloads, fetch execution, and cache revalidation. B. Core Utilities logger – Structured logging for debugging and monitoring. resolveModelName – Converts route names like saved-attribute → saved_attribute. hasPermission & parseAccessRules – Implements RBAC to check…  ( 9 min )

WTF is this: Deciphering the Mystery of Intelligent Document Processing Ah, documents – the ultimate party crashers of the digital age. They just won't quit, will they? From receipts to invoices, contracts to reports, our lives are filled with an endless stream of paperwork. But, what if I told you there's a way to make sense of it all? Enter Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), the superhero of the tech world that's here to save the day, one document at a time. In simple terms, Intelligent Document Processing is a technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automatically extract, categorize, and process data from various types of documents. Think of it like a super-smart, hyper-efficient clerk who can read, understand, and make sense of even the most c…  ( 12 min )

From the offical blog In the past, creating a website required significant capital and professional coding assistance. Today, with the proliferation of advanced website builders and Content Management Systems (CMS), even someone with zero coding experience can launch a professional site. While professional agencies may charge thousands, a DIY approach can effectively bring your monthly startup cost down to the price of a cup of coffee. Before diving into the steps, you must understand the three non-negotiable elements every site needs: Domain Name: Your address on the internet (e.g., .com). Website Builder/CMS: The software used to build the site (e.g., WordPress, Squarespace). Web Hosting: The digital “land” where your website files are stored (essential for self-hosted platforms like …  ( 14 min )

We previously published an article titled “Unlocking Seamless & Secure Access: Introducing Generalized OIDC Authentication in Apache DolphinScheduler”, which drew significant attention both within and beyond the community. The piece highlighted one of the standout achievements from Google Summer of Code 2025 — Aryan Kumar, a student from the Punjab Engineering College in India, implemented a brand-new universal OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication mechanism for Apache DolphinScheduler. This new capability not only streamlines the entire user access process for DolphinScheduler but also greatly enhances the system’s security posture, making DolphinScheduler better suited for diverse enterprise-level scenarios. Notably, Aryan’s implementation makes clever use of the Nimbus SDK and takes data…  ( 14 min )

We need to talk about the "Micro-Interruption" and what it actually does to your brain during an intense coding session. You know the specific feeling I am talking about: You are deep in the code mines, mentally holding a complex dependency graph in your head, and you finally implement the fix for a race condition. You hit Cmd+S to save, and then the administrative ritual begins. You have to physically shift your focus from your code editor to your terminal window, breaking your visual focus. You have to press Ctrl+C to send a kill signal to your running server and wait a split second for the socket to close. You press the Up Arrow to recall your run command, and finally, you hit Enter. It seems like a trivial action that takes only a few seconds, but when you perform it hundreds of …  ( 9 min )

Recently, I’ve been running Codex alongside Claude Code and pasting every response into Codex to get a second opinion. It worked great… I experienced FAR fewer bugs, caught bad plans early, and was able to benefit from the strengths of each model. But obviously, copy-pasting every response is slow and tedious. So, I looked for ways to automate it. Tools like just-every/code replace Claude Code entirely, which wasn’t what I wanted. I also experimented with having Claude call the Codex MCP after every response, but ran into a few issues: Codex only sees whatever limited context Claude sends it. Each call starts a new thread, so Codex has no memory of the repo or previous turns (can’t have a multi-turn discussion). Claude becomes blocked until Codex completes the review. Other third-party MCP solutions seemed to have the same problems or were just LLM wrappers with no agentic capabilities. Additionally, none of these tools allowed me to choose to apply or ignore the feedback, so it wouldn’t confuse the agent if unnecessary or incorrect. I wanted a tool that was automatic, persistent, and separate from my main agent. That’s why I built Sage, which runs in a separate terminal and watches your coding agent in real time, automatically cross-checking every response with other models (currently just OpenAI models, Gemini & Grok coming soon). Unlike MCP tools, Sage is a full-fledged coding agent. It reads your codebase, makes tool calls, searches the web, and remembers the entire conversation. Each review is part of the same thread, so it builds context over time. Would love your honest feedback. Feel free to join our Discord to leave feedback and get updates on new projects/features https://discord.com/invite/bsFz2ppgMU Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SerQyhBtlwM  ( 7 min )

Why this comparison matters - LangChain vs LangGraph I build practical LLM-powered software and have seen two patterns emerge: straightforward, linear pipelines and stateful, agentic workflows. The question "LangChain vs LangGraph" is not academic. It determines architecture, maintenance, and how the system reasons over time. When I say "LangChain vs LangGraph" I mean comparing two different design philosophies. LangChain is optimized for linear sequences: take input, run one or more LLM calls in order, store or return the result. LangGraph is optimized for graphs: nodes, edges, loops, and persistent state across many steps. I use LangChain when the workflow is essentially A then B then C. LangChain provides a standardized framework that saves developers from hard coding integrations, p…  ( 11 min )

🚀 I signed up for the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive with Google and Kaggle not just to learn—but to build something that matters. As a creative educator and Python developer, I’ve always believed that technical tools should feel intuitive, empathetic, and empowering. That’s how Finaura AI was born—a financial agent designed to help users navigate data with clarity and emotional resonance. 🧩 Building Finaura: From Idea to Agent Google ADK for agent orchestration Gemini 2.5 Flash for fast, context-aware generation Custom Python workflows for encoding, scaling, and regression modeling I architected Finaura to handle real-world financial data, but I didn’t stop at functionality. I wanted the agent to feel like a guide—not just a calculator. So I layered in storytelling: every insight comes with context. 🔧 Debugging the Soul of the Agent I iterated hybrid encoding pipelines until they were robust enough for noisy datasets. I refined regression workflows to balance performance with interpretability. I learned how to teach through errors—turning bugs into lessons for my audience. 🎭 Storytelling Meets Strategy 📚 What I Learned Agents are more than workflows—they’re experiences. Debugging is design. Every error is a chance to improve the user journey. Branding matters. A memorable name, a punchy tagline, and a clear value prop make your agent unforgettable. Community fuels growth. Sharing my build process helped me connect with other creators and learners. 💬 Final Reflection This challenge wasn’t just about building an agent—it was about building belief. Belief that I could blend creativity with computation. Belief that education can be emotional, technical, and transformative. Belief that agents like Finaura can help people feel less lost in their data—and more in control.  ( 7 min )

But while features and interfaces usually get the spotlight, one foundational layer rarely gets talked about: 👉 The programming language behind the application. In healthcare, this choice matters more than in almost any other industry because it affects: compliance & security data safety interoperability (FHIR, HL7, DICOM) long-term scalability performance under clinical load developer productivity integration with legacy systems Let’s break down the programming languages reshaping digital health in 2025—and what developers should consider when building healthcare applications. If you’re building anything involving: clinical ML models pattern recognition classification for medical images patient risk scoring NLP for EMRs workflow automation Python is the go-to. Why Python dominates health…  ( 8 min )

Over the past few weeks I’ve been building a fully-playable 8-bit virtual console from scratch — CPU, instruction set, assembler, sprite system, IDE, the lot. One of the more interesting side quests has been teaching an LLM to generate valid assembly targeting my CPU. You can follow the full build in my YouTube series here. It's called Building a Virtual 8-Bit Console with an AI Assistant and we're up to about part 14 and things are still ongoing. The source code for the project can be found on GitHub here - snapshot at the tag where I added this work. If you’ve ever tried asking a model to generate domain-specific code, you’ll know what happens: it writes things that look right, but your parser throws it back at you in disgust. I wanted something different. I needed this to work. I wanted…  ( 17 min )

In real-time data platforms, real-time data warehouses, data lake ingestion, and distributed data replication, CDC (Change Data Capture) has become a standard capability in building modern data pipelines. Whether you are building a real-time warehouse on StarRocks, Doris, or ClickHouse, writing real-time change events into Iceberg, Paimon, or Hudi, or synchronizing data across databases, CDC is the core foundation. There is one common CDC question that is often overlooked: Why must a MySQL CDC UPDATE event output two records — one BEFORE and one AFTER? Why can’t it output only the final new value? If we only have AFTER, can’t the system still sync correctly? At first glance, it seems possible. But once you dive into consistency, idempotency, replayability, primary key handling, data lake m…  ( 10 min )

Qui n'a jamais entendu cette question dans l'espace ouvert "oui, mais elle fait quelle taille ton unité ?" Et l'autre de répondre : "petite, comme... heu", et là, patatras, pas de point de comparaison. Pourtant, l'autre utilise JUnit, ou PHPUnit, ou un autre. Oui, JUnit, le cadriciel créé par Kent Beck et Erich Gamma (du GoF), LE Kent Beck du Test-Driven Development, le fameux TDA, pardon, TDD. Ne nous emportons pas, l'autre est peut-être adepte du Behavior-Driven Development, la fameuse méthodologie où ce sont les analystes métiers qui rédigent directement les cas de tests, grâce aux harnais fournis par les développeurs, et pas un dévoiement de la méthodologie où le développeur code dans un langage de concombres (même pas masqués) ? Ou simplement en écrivant des noms de méthodes de 500 ca…  ( 11 min )

Let's be real for a second. Nobody wakes up in the morning excited to write PDF generation code. It usually starts as a quick task. Your project manager drops by and says, "Hey, can we just add an 'Export to PDF' button for these invoices?" You nod. It sounds like a two-hour job. Three days later, you're still sitting there at 2 AM, trying to figure out why your table rows are splitting in half across pages or why the custom font works on your local machine but turns into garbage on the server. I've been down this rabbit hole too many times. So, instead of grabbing the first library I found on Google, I decided to actually sit down and test the three big players in the .NET space to see which one respects my time the most. Here is the breakdown of iText 7, QuestPDF, and IronPDF. The bigges…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Developing Invoice Shield: Creating an AI Workflow from a Boring Finance Task 🛡️ The Real Function of Invoice Shield 1) A little multi-agent system called Invoice Shield mimics a financial team: 🧠 Reasons for Selecting Agents Instead of One Big Model 🔍 The Most Interesting Part: 💡 What I Learned Building This • A good AI system is frequently made up of several simple components working together rather than the smartest model. ✨ The Result: 🚀 What Comes Next 🧪 Why this matters 🔗 Code https://github.com/MilindGarge07/InvoiceShield  ( 8 min )

✍️ Final Article Draft: English Translation Introduction: Stepping into the World of AI Agents When I first embarked on the AI Agents Intensive program, I realized that Agents were not just theoretical concepts but powerful frameworks capable of solving real-world problems. For our Capstone Project, we chose to build a Smart Content Generator Agent. Its primary objective was to reduce the time spent on creating compelling advertising copy for social media. This article will detail the challenges I faced in designing our Agent—such as structuring the prompt and dealing with performance issues—and the profound lessons I learned in guiding an Agent to produce accurate and high-quality content. Agent Architecture and Tools Our Agent's architecture is straightforward yet highly focused on the g…  ( 7 min )

I spent 6 months building a white label travel portal. Integrated 50+ APIs for flights, hotels, and buses. Here's what actually happened. 1. Every Travel API is Different (And Annoying) The Problem: 2. Speed Makes or Breaks You Day 1: Calling 15 APIs one by one = 12 seconds Lesson: In travel booking, anything over 2 seconds kills conversions. Cache everything aggressively. 3. APIs Will Fail at the Worst Times 3-4 backup providers for every service Lesson: Build for failure, not success. Always have backup providers. 4. India-Specific Challenges Nobody Mentions Different success rates for different banks GST Complexity: Domestic flights: 5% GST IRCTC (Train Booking): 5. The Real Costs (What I Didn't Expect) Development: ₹15 lakhs What I Actually Spent: Development: ₹28 lakhs (nearly 2x) The Hidden Killers: ₹2-5 per API search call (adds up fast with volume) Honest ROI: Total investment: ₹45 lakhs Lesson: Travel margins are thin. You make money on volume, not per-transaction. Key Strategies: Started with 5 reliable APIs, added more gradually Should You Build One? You have ₹30-50 lakhs to invest Don't build it if: Expecting quick returns Final Thoughts Questions? Drop them in the comments. Happy to share more specific details about any aspect. Tags: #webdev #startup #india #api #travel #entrepreneurship  ( 8 min )

December 4th, 2025 — A day the frontend ecosystem won’t forget. If Log4Shell was Java’s nightmare in 2021, then today’s disclosure of CVE‑2025‑55182 (Next.js counterpart CVE‑2025‑66478) marks the darkest hour of the modern React/Next.js full‑stack era. A CVSS score of 10.0, unauthenticated RCE, and impact across React 19, Next.js 15/16, and any framework implementing React Server Components (RSC). If you're reading this before coffee: drop everything and check your versions. React’s core team has officially confirmed a critical remote code execution vulnerability inside the implementation of React Server Components — and it’s as bad as it sounds. To understand the issue, we need to understand how RSC moves data. React Server Components rely on a streaming, JSON‑like protocol called Flight…  ( 8 min )

TinyNN: A Fast, Zero-Dependency Neural Network Library for Node.js A lightweight neural network library optimized for CPU performance. No dependencies, pure JavaScript. Trains MNIST to 91% accuracy in under a minute. Built for developers learning AI who want to understand the underlying mechanics without the overhead of heavy frameworks. TinyNN is a feedforward neural network implementation in ~500 lines of code. It uses typed arrays (Float64Array) and optimized loops for performance. Zero dependencies - No external packages required CPU optimized - Typed arrays and cache-friendly loops Small footprint - 8.4 KB compressed Educational - Clean, commented code you can actually read import tinynn from 'tinynn'; import { relu } from 'tinynn/utils'; // Create network: 784 inputs, two hidden l…  ( 7 min )

I am P. Perumal Moorthy, a participant of the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course on Kaggle. My Learning Experience During this intensive, I learned: What AI agents are and how they function Prompting strategies and tool usage Action → Observation → Thought workflow Handling multi-step reasoning tasks Building and deploying autonomous agents Capstone Project Experience In my capstone project, I created an AI agent that: Accepts user instructions Uses tools to solve tasks autonomously Handles errors and continues execution This project enhanced my understanding of practical AI automation and reinforced my problem-solving skills. Challenges & Growth Initially, structuring prompts and debugging agent actions was challenging, but the step-by-step guidance helped me overcome these difficulties. Key Takeaways Well-structured prompts greatly influence agent performance Combining tools with reasoning creates effective automation Testing and iteration are essential Appreciation Thank you to the Kaggle Team, instructors, and community for this incredible learning journey. I am proud to be part of this intensive and excited to continue learning AI, ML, and Data Science on Kaggle.  ( 6 min )

BrowserStack earned its reputation through reliable cross-browser testing infrastructure, but many teams discover its reporting capabilities don't match modern analytics needs. When Playwright reporting depth matters and costs climb with scale, exploring BrowserStack alternatives becomes essential. The BrowserStack Reporting Reality BrowserStack handles test execution across browsers and devices exceptionally well. Infrastructure is reliable, setup is straightforward, and coverage is extensive. These strengths make it popular for functional and visual testing. However, reporting remains execution-centric rather than analysis-focused. Basic trends and error grouping serve immediate needs, but teams seeking granular analytics, flaky pattern detection, or AI-assisted debugging consistently fi…  ( 9 min )

Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of new applications will use low-code or no-code technologies. This shift isn't just a trend; it's a survival strategy for startups facing tight budgets and developer shortages. Low-code platforms now allow founders to build enterprise-grade apps 10x faster than traditional coding. This guide explores how low-code platforms are transforming startup app development and helps you choose the right tool for your growth. The global low-code market is projected to reach nearly $50 billion by 2025. Startups drive much of this growth because they need to move fast. Traditional development cycles of 6-9 months are too slow when competitors launch in weeks. Low-code bridges the technical skills gap. With developer salaries rising, early-stage companies often cannot…  ( 10 min )

Hey dev community! 👋 I'm excited to share fullcircle™ - a dating app I've been building for people who practice meditation, yoga, energy healing, and embrace mindful living. Think of it as the anti-swipe app for conscious souls seeking genuine connections. Unlike mainstream dating apps that are just about matching, fullcircle combines dating with community and self-growth. This is what sets it apart. The Sanctuary is a dedicated space for: Spiritual Events: Meditation circles, sound baths, breathwork sessions Community Gatherings: Yoga circles, healing workshops, conscious community meetups Retreats: Weekend getaways and extended spiritual retreats Growth Practices: Group meditation, energy healing sessions It's not just about finding a partner - it's about connecting with a community t…  ( 7 min )

Participating in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive was a transformative experience for me. Before joining, I had only a basic understanding of how AI systems work. But through the intensive, I learned how modern AI agents are designed, how they interact with tools, and how they solve real-world tasks in an autonomous way. One of the biggest takeaways for me was understanding how agents plan, reason, and take actions instead of just answering questions. Concepts like tool use, chaining tasks, prompt design, and structured reasoning helped me clearly see how powerful AI can be when combined with the right workflows. The practical exercises made everything feel real and approachable. I especially enjoyed working with Kaggle’s notebook environment, experimenting with prompts, and seeing how small prompt changes influenced an agent’s performance. It was exciting to watch an AI system break down a complex problem into steps and generate meaningful outputs. Another important learning was the importance of evaluation, safety, and reliability. I understood that building an agent is not just about making it “work,” but making it predictable, responsible, and aligned with user goals. This gave me a more professional perspective on AI development. 5.Overall, this intensive boosted my confidence and motivation to learn further. I now feel comfortable exploring advanced topics like workflow automation, model fine-tuning, and end-to-end agent design. I’m grateful to the Kaggle community and instructors for creating such an interactive learning experience. 6.This journey inspired me to continue building my skills, contribute to real-world AI projects, and keep learning through Kaggle courses. Thank you for this opportunity!  ( 6 min )

Building apps used to take weeks of coding and multiple tools. Now, platforms like Base44 are changing that with a simple idea: describe your app, and let AI build it. Base44 is an AI-powered app builder that turns natural language into fully functional web applications. It's designed for speed, simplicity, and flexibility. Whether you're launching your first product or testing a business idea, Base44 helps you get there faster without writing a single line of code. In this guide, you’ll learn what Base44 is, how it works, and what makes it different from other AI development tools. We’ll walk through its core features, key benefits, and real-world use cases. You’ll also discover its limitations and explore strong alternatives if you need more control or customization. By the end, you’ll k…  ( 11 min )

Ketika G. H. Hardy (Godfrey Harold Hardy) dengan bangga menyatakan bahwa karyanya dalam matematika murni tidak akan pernah berguna dalam praktik, ia ternyata keliru besar. Lebih dari 50 tahun setelah kematiannya, sistem yang mengamankan pesan WhatsApp Anda, melindungi transaksi perbankan online, dan menjaga komunikasi digital global semuanya bergantung pada ide-ide matematika yang pernah ia kembangkan. Ironisnya, matematika yang dulu ia sebut sebagai “indah tapi tak berguna” justru menjadi tulang punggung kriptografi modern. Artikel ini membahas jembatan tak terduga antara teori bilangan awal abad ke-20 karya Hardy dan skema enkripsi yang mengamankan dunia digital kita saat ini. Hardy adalah penganut kuat matematika murni ilmu yang dikejar demi keindahannya, bukan aplikasinya. Ia bekerja …  ( 7 min )

why java use oops concept ? OOPS CONCEPT IN JAVA -> Class -> Object -> Inheritance -> Polymorphism -> Encapsulation -> Abstraction  ( 6 min )

In today’s competitive business environment, visibility and credibility are key to success. Level Up Chicago has emerged as one of the top chicago public relations firms, helping brands craft compelling stories, engage audiences, and build lasting reputations. From startups to established businesses, Level Up Chicago offers strategic media outreach, social media management, and digital communication solutions that drive real results. Partnering with experienced chicago public relations firms ensures your brand stands out in a crowded market and connects meaningfully with your audience. With a focus on creativity, strategy, and measurable impact, Level Up Chicago is the go-to partner for businesses looking to elevate their brand presence in Chicago and beyond.  ( 6 min )

Images account for 50-70% of a typical web page's total size. Serving optimized images based on device capabilities and screen density is crucial for performance, user experience, and SEO. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore device pixel ratio (DPR) optimization and responsive image techniques using React and Next.js. Device Pixel Ratio represents the relationship between physical pixels and CSS pixels. Modern devices have varying DPRs: Standard displays: DPR 1 (1920x1080 monitors) Retina/HD displays: DPR 2 (MacBook Pro, iPhone) Ultra HD displays: DPR 3+ (iPhone 15 Pro, Samsung Galaxy) Serving a 1x image to a 3x device results in blurry visuals, while serving a 3x image to a 1x device wastes bandwidth. // Get current device pixel ratio const dpr = window.devicePixelRatio || 1; // L…  ( 8 min )

This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps — WOW Factor. I built a cross-platform app called Smart Café, a coffee-shop themed application that mimics the experience of entering a premium café menu on your device. The goal was to create a UI that feels warm, modern and immersive — an app where the user enjoys looking around even before clicking anything. The entire app runs from a single Uno Platform .NET codebase and maintains the same visual quality, animations and responsiveness across multiple platforms. 🔗 GitHub Repository: 📱 Screenshots / Video: Android screenshot Windows screenshot WebAssembly screenshot (upload screenshots directly into DEV below this section — judges love visual proof!) The app runs on: Android Windows WebAssembly (Browser) I wrote…  ( 7 min )

The success of the logistic regression gave me a confidence boost, but the program's performance felt like a punch to the gut. The naive matrix multiplication module was taking forever to complete even on a small dataset like (321 * 6). No programmer enjoys staring at the console for the program to finish its execution. I have a CUDA-enabled GPU sitting in my machine gathering dust. I had avoided configuring it for development for two years out of sheer laziness. But, to scale up I had to conquer my laziness. I had to make my GPU perform the heavy math. I spent some time searching alternatives. Many search results pointed to ndarray, a high-performance rust library to work with multi-dimensional arrays. It's a great library, but using it out of the box felt like cheating, like another blac…  ( 10 min )

Introduction In the part 8 of this article series, we learned how to develop a pure Quarkus REST application and deploy it on AWS Lambda. We also measure the performance (cold and warm start time times) of Lambda function. In this article series, we'll convert this sample application from part 8 into the GraalVM Native image and deploy it as AWS Lambda Custom Runtime and measure its performance. In the part 5 of this article, series we've already described the steps to convert the Quarkus 3 application into GraalVM Native Image. We need to perform the similar steps to convert our Qurakus REST application on AWS Lambda into the GraalVM Native (25) Image and deploy it as AWS Lambda Custom Runtime and measure its performance. The final application is published in the quarkus-3.26-as-graal…  ( 10 min )

For my cybersecurity masters work, I wanted to go deeper than running tools and reading packet captures. I wanted to understand what was happening inside the packets themselves. Instead of calling Scapy or hiding behind Python abstractions, I decided to build my own packet manipulation library from scratch in Nim. That became NimPacket, and it turned out to be one of the most useful and eye opening projects I have done. NimPacket gives full control of IPv4, TCP, UDP, and ICMP headers. Everything is exposed at the byte level. You can set fields, flip flags, stack layers, serialize to raw bytes, and then parse real traffic back into readable structures. Working at this depth made me understand not just how protocols work but how they fail and how attackers take advantage of them. I included real examples so the library is not just a research exercise. There is a working SYN port scanner, a raw packet sniffer, and an ICMP echo builder. These examples helped validate the code and also give anyone reading the repository a clear idea of how to apply the library in actual security work. It runs smoothly on Kali and makes it easy to build custom packet tools without relying on heavy frameworks. The project taught me a lot about checksum algorithms, endian handling, field packing, and protocol specifications. It also showed me why low level networking is still important for people in cybersecurity. You cannot fully understand network attacks unless you know what each byte represents and why it is there. If you want to see the code or try it out, the repository is here: https://github.com/0x57Origin/NimPacket I am always open to feedback from people who have more experience in systems programming or raw socket work, so feel free to check it out and let me know what you think.  ( 7 min )

Submission for the AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge Introduction I'll be honest—before taking the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google and Kaggle, I thought I understood agents. Spoiler: I didn't. My mental model was basically wrapping an LLM in a while(true) loop, adding a few if-statements, and calling it "agentic." Embarrassing in hindsight, but we all start somewhere, right? The past five days have completely rewired that thinking. I've gone from building simple, reactive bots to trying to architect "deliberative" systems that actually plan (and sometimes overthink) their next move. Key Learnings & Insights Reactive vs. Deliberative: The Wake-Up Call Honestly? The distinction between Reactive and Deliberative agents hit me like a truck. I'd been building 'agents' fo…  ( 8 min )

I have attempted to learn Rust several times in the past. The journey always looked the same: start learning an area of development, implement a few things, understand the concept; and then leave it after some time. This happened more than once, so I decided to try a different approach this time. I was also curious about how AI works. I don't quite like the "magic" of black boxes and machine learning felt like one to me. So, I set out on a new journey: to merge both of my areas of learning in one project. I decided to write a Rust-based ML library. It went well. I spent about a month to get to the point where it can do simple linear regression. But then, due to other priorities, the project went on the back burner, collecting dust. After about 18 months, I found some free time to pursue th…  ( 10 min )

This article is a machine translation of the contents of the following URL, which I wrote in Japanese: https://qiita.com/Nana_777/items/d71dacb97e1e99375b36 This is the fifth post in the Japan AWS Top Engineers Advent Calendar 2025. Today, I'd like to introduce Kiro, a character who frequently appears in my Advent Calendar-related posts. I've written about Kiro in several past articles, so I'll quote those articles and provide an overall overview of Kiro. ↓ Japan AWS Top Engineers Advent Calendar 2025 is here https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2025/aws-top-engineers ↓ My previous article on Kiro https://dev.to/aws-builders/aws-we-tried-out-the-popular-kiro-features-including-applying-rule-files-and-implementing-from-54di ↓ Some of the images in this article are slides I used at JAWS-UG Morn…  ( 11 min )

Developers and automation engineers know one constant truth: Data Extraction Accuracy Improves from ~70% → 95%+ AI Validation Rules Catch Errors Earlier Predictive Logic Reduces Decision Errors Feedback Loops Improve Accuracy Continuously Hybrid Automation = Maximum Reliability  ( 6 min )

We've all been there. You open a Pull Request, and it's 50 files deep. You spend the next hour commenting on indentation, variable naming, and missing docstrings. By the time you're done, you're exhausted. And that's exactly when the real bugs slip through. I'm talking about the silent performance killers. The O(n) operation inside a loop. The unconstrained file extraction that becomes a Zip Bomb. The full database reload triggered by a single user action. These aren't style issues. They are architectural bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities that linter rules can't catch. I realized that my team was spending 90% of our review time on things that didn't matter, and missing the 10% that actually killed production. We needed a way to automate the deep inspection—not just "is this line too…  ( 7 min )

Just a week ago, Google launched Antigravity, and why not give it a try and share my experience? And here I am for this. In this article, I'll talk about my first experience with Antigravity and how I built a small web app called The Mood Mirror. This app emulates an artist who can convert your mood into abstract images or videos. Spoiler: this app uses Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro and Veo, but I'll talk about them in a future article. Let's start with a small presentation about Antigravity. Google Antigravity is an Agentic IDE. It is a fork of VSCode with a dedicated agent section that features models such as Gemini, Claude, and GPT. This last part is what makes Antigravity different from VSCode or Cursor; this section is built and maintained by Google. Yes, the experiences are common, but h…  ( 10 min )

it’s a context → space → navigation language. So the ordering rule is: Think of ME as a contextual algebra: State: short-term memory (STM), indexes, encryptedBranches, localSecrets/localNoises, runtime frames Context: the current “frame” (identity focus, effectiveSecret, current pointer target, etc.) Navigation: path composition under the current context. You can group operators by what kind of context they construct: Identity/context focus operators Secret / privacy frame operators Noise / re-root operators Pointer / alias frame operators Derivation operators Query/collection operators tombstones/removes a value under the current context @ creates an identity-focus Thought and updates the active identity frame. _ creates/loads a secret frame and makes selected roots stealth. **~ **changes effectiveSecret lineage. __ binds pointer frame and makes __ptr.* derivations meaningful. Axioms should be structure + frame invariants, not app-policy validation.  ( 7 min )

XXE Injection remains one of the most dangerous, yet misunderstood, flaws. If your application processes XML (including SVG or SOAP), it is likely vulnerable to catastrophic attacks. I published a technical breakdown showing exactly how attackers: Read arbitrary system files (e.g., /etc/passwd). Execute Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) against internal networks, including cloud metadata services (169.254.169.254). Perform Blind XXE via out-of-band data exfiltration. The article includes code snippets for disabling external entity processing across Java, PHP, and .NET. ➡️ Read the full technical analysis here: https://revbrightintl.blogspot.com/2025/12/xml-external-entity-xxe-injection.html  ( 6 min )

You spent October and November perfecting your holiday campaigns. The sales came through. Your December revenue looked beautiful. Then January hits, and those same customers who couldn't wait to buy from you suddenly act like you never met. Sound familiar? Here's what actually happens: Most brands treat post-holiday email strategy like they're still in November. Another 20% off email. Another "New Year, New You" subject line. Another reason for customers to hit unsubscribe because they're drowning in promotional fatigue after six weeks of URGENT LAST CHANCE FINAL SALE messages. The data tells an interesting story. According to recent e-commerce research, about 68% of holiday shoppers are first-time buyers. But only 22% of those buyers make a second purchase within six months. That gap? Tha…  ( 13 min )

From Prompts to Pipelines: What I Learned About Building Real AI Agents When I joined the AI Agents Intensive, I thought “agents” were nothing but just smart chatbots. And by the end, I was building ProdigyFlow — a full multi-agent pipeline that loads raw data, cleans it, analyzes it, creates charts, and finally produces an automated report. This course completely changed how I think about AI. The biggest shift for me was understanding that agents are not one big model — they’re a team. Each agent has a job, its own tools, and a clear role in the pipeline. a Cleaning Agent to fix messy data an Analysis Agent to derive insights a Visualization Agent to generate graphs and a Main File to make them work together smoothly Seeing these parts collaborate felt like building a small company inside Python. There were a lot of behind-the-scenes struggles too: API keys broke so many times we memorized our .env file 😭 GitHub workflows failed at 2 AM for reasons we did not understand We learned how important logs, error handling, and reproducible runs really are Python libraries (Pandas, Matplotlib, tqdm) became our superpowers But every challenge made the final system more real. This project also became a true team win. My teammate Priyamvadha and I figured things out together — fixing bugs, testing agents, and redesigning the pipeline more than once. Here are the project links if you want to explore: https://github.com/komalharshita/prodigyflow https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/agents-intensive-capstone-project/writeups/ProdigyFlow https://www.linkedin.com/in/komalharshita/ Huge thanks to Google, Kaggle, and the mentors for creating this opportunity. I started this course writing simple prompts, and finished by building an end-to-end intelligent pipeline.  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections The AI Agents Intensive has been one of the most meaningful learning experiences of my year. When I first joined, I wasn’t sure I could grasp concepts like agents, tools, memory, or even navigate Kaggle effectively. But this journey completely changed my mindset and revealed a version of myself that is more capable, curious, and confident. The most fascinating part of the intensive was working with Kaggle Notebooks. For the first time, I got hands-on experience running code, experimenting with agents, and seeing everything come alive in real time. I also learned how AI uses memory to better understand users — a concept that made me appreciate the intelligence behind conversational systems. Witnessing how …  ( 7 min )

Before we can start creating resources in Microsoft Azure, one of the first concepts to understand is Azure Resource Manager (ARM). ARM is the backbone of how resources in Azure are deployed, managed, and organized. Let's talk about it. Azure Resource Manager is an orchestrator and management layer that sits between users and resource providers, enabling users to create, update, and delete resources in their Azure accounts. Resource providers are services, such as storage or compute, that supply Azure resources. Think of ARM like a remote control for a smart home. Just as a remote allows you to manage various functions like lighting, temperature, and security from one device, ARM acts as the control center, ensuring that all your resources, such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Storage Accoun…  ( 8 min )

Runtime memory handling is a crucial part of writing software, which heavily impacts the performance of your program. I think for every language there comes this layer of responsibility, but how it is delegated between the developer and the language is different. In the case of using C/C++ - memory allocation is totally under the control of the developer. Whereas in languages like JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, where memory is managed - developers rarely need to worry about where an array is stored in memory, it's the duty of the language's runtime system to decide when to deallocate data that is no longer used. And this is where garbage collection comes into play. C# (.NET platform) is known for its heavy GC (garbage collection) of dynamic (heap-allocated) resources. The process is straigh…  ( 18 min )

YouTube Shorts can blow up fast but only if you understand how your audience behaves. One of my recent Shorts crossed 25K+ views within just 2 days, and it's still trending today. Here’s the Short if you want to check it: https://youtube.com/shorts/SHmcBMhZ0p0 The secret behind that growth wasn’t luck. analytics especially metrics like: Stayed to watch (Retention %) Average view duration Hook performance (first 3 seconds) Replays & Loop factor In this guide, I’ll break down everything I learned so you can repeat the same results. My video analytics showed something like: Stayed to watch: 66.2% Average view duration: 0:20 seconds This tells you two BIG things: Anything above 50% retention is excellent for Shorts. A 20s average duration often means people are skipping early so improving you…  ( 7 min )

Model Context Protocol explained through practical Q&A The Problem MCP Solves Building Your First MCP Server The Client Side The Two-Terminal Misconception The Three Components Client vs Host - The Key Difference Why Three Components? Testing Your MCP Server Real-World Example: GitHub MCP Server Common Patterns Debugging Tips Architecture Deep Dive Quick Start Summary Explore More MCP Servers Rahul (Developer): Man, I keep hearing about MCP everywhere. What problem does it actually solve? Amit (Expert): Good question! Let me give you a real-world scenario. Before MCP, if you wanted Claude Desktop to access your GitHub repos, AWS resources, and company database, you'd need: Claude team to build custom GitHub integration Claude team to build custom AWS integration Claude team to build custo…  ( 14 min )

This is Day 4 of Building SaaS Solo - Design, Implementation, and Operation Advent Calendar 2025. Yesterday I wrote about "Starting Indie Development with Next.js + Supabase." Today I'll share my documentation strategy for indie development. Note: What I'm sharing here is my current approach after much trial and error. I've had plenty of failures, and I'll share those too. I spent many years at a SIer doing waterfall development. The flow of requirements → basic design → detailed design → implementation → testing is ingrained in me. When I started building Memoreru as an indie project, I initially took a waterfall approach, but gradually evolved into a hybrid style incorporating agile elements. After much trial and error, Memoreru's documentation has the following structure. This may conti…  ( 9 min )

Bias vs Variance in Production ML — Deep Technical Guide for Real-World Systems How top ML teams diagnose degradation when labels are delayed, missing, or biased. One of the most insightful questions I received on my previous article was: “How do you practically estimate and track bias vs variance over time in a live production ML system?” This sounds simple, but it’s one of the hardest unanswered problems in ML engineering. Because in production: Labels arrive late (hours → days → weeks) Many predictions never receive labels Datasets are streaming, not static Concept drift changes what “correct” even means External world shifts faster than retraining cycles Traditional bias–variance decomposition becomes useless This article is the deepest, most technically complete breakdown of…  ( 10 min )

Beyond Backpropagation: Hyperdimensional Computing for Lightning-Fast Graph Analysis Imagine analyzing massive social networks or predicting molecular properties in real-time. The problem? Traditional graph neural networks (GNNs), while powerful, often choke on the sheer scale of these tasks, demanding immense computational resources. Here's the breakthrough: a novel approach leveraging hyperdimensional computing (HDC) for graph classification. Instead of backpropagation and gradient descent, we use high-dimensional vectors to represent graph structures and node attributes. These vectors are then manipulated using simple algebraic operations, essentially encoding graph relationships within the vector space. Think of it like this: each node is a unique musical note, and the relationships …  ( 7 min )

I Built an AI Memory System Because I Got Tired of Repeating Myself AI has no memory. Every conversation starts from zero. And I was sick of it. I'm a production manager in live entertainment - concerts, theater, events. I work with hundreds of crew members, complex schedules, and zero margin Every. Single. Session. Started. Over. "I prefer snake_case for variables." I'd type these preferences daily. Sometimes hourly. My context window was filling up with repetitive information, my costs were climbing, and the AI learning from our work together. So I built Claudarity - a memory system that tracks what works, what doesn't, and automatically provides context when needed. ## The Problem: AI Goldfish Syndrome Current AI assistants are like having a brilliant colleague with amnesia: No memory b…  ( 10 min )

Introduction to Agents This part helped me understand what an AI agent actually is. Earlier, I only thought of an agent as something that “answers questions,” but through the intensive, I learned that an agent is a whole system that observes, plans, reasons, and takes actions. I learned how agents break down problems, how their workflows are structured, and how different components work together. This foundation completely changed the way I think about AI systems. Agent Tools & Interoperability with Model Context Protocol (MCP) This was one of the most eye-opening sections for me. I learned how agents use external tools instead of relying only on model outputs. Understanding MCP taught me how tools, models, and memory can communicate cleanly through a shared protocol. Context Engineering: …  ( 10 min )

I recently completed the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, and surprisingly, this short program taught me more about AI agents than I expected. It was fast, hands-on, and filled with small “aha” moments that made the whole experience genuinely worth it. *Why I Joined *What I Learned (In Simple Words) Each day clarified one important concept: Capstone Project Experience The capstone project felt a bit challenging at first because it required building a complete workflow—from planning to execution. But once the agent started following each step properly, everything clicked. This project taught me that solid planning, proper tool usage, and debugging are the real skills behind building agents. What I Liked the Most The steps were simple and clear Examples were practical Watching the agent run in real time was fun The Kaggle community was supportive And for a 5-day program, it covered a surprising amount Overall, the experience felt smooth and genuinely enjoyable. *How This Course Helped Me A short program, but with a strong learning impact. *What I Plan To Do Next Try automating real-world workflow Overall, this intensive was short but extremely impactful and excellent. If someone wants to understand AI agents from the ground up, this program is a perfect starting point For me, it was a simple, clear, and genuinely useful learning experience  ( 7 min )

What if the relentless grind and exhausting struggle aren't the only paths to success? For years, I championed the "self-made man" ethos, believing that achievement was born solely from pain and overcoming. But I discovered a more elegant, powerful way: the path of Allowance. This isn't about cheats or hacks; it's about understanding the fundamental mechanics of reality. It’s a shift from forcing outcomes to allowing them, transforming life from a battle for survival into a captivating game you are designed to win. This is the most important career—and life—lesson I've ever learned. Introduction: A Departure from the Known This is not my typical article. For the first time, I'm stepping away from my own rules to publish something that has no direct link to cybersecurity. Yet, in my view…  ( 12 min )

Introduction The next billion mobile users aren't getting smartphones, they're getting $20 flip phones running KaiOS. While the tech world obsesses over the latest iPhone, over 200 million people worldwide rely on feature phones with limited capabilities but essential connectivity. My challenge: Build BlueKai, a fully-featured BlueSky client for devices with 256MB RAM, Gecko 48 (Firefox from 2017), and D-pad navigation. No touch screen. No modern JavaScript APIs. Just the basics, and the determination to bring decentralized social networking to users in remote areas with limited data plans. This is the story of how I used Kiro, an AI-powered IDE, and a spec-driven development approach to ship a production-ready app in days instead of weeks. KaiOS sits in a unique position in the mobile …  ( 11 min )

The landscape of business automation has just shifted beneath our feet. For years, the debate has been between user-friendly tools like Zapier and powerful, developer-centric platforms like n8n. But the release of Google Workspace Studio has introduced a third, massive variable: hyper-intelligent, AI-native automation that is already included in the software suite used by 3 billion people. As an automation strategist who has built hundreds of workflows, I’ve been analyzing this shift. This isn't just about features; it’s about the fundamental difference between "connecting apps" and "deploying agents." If your organization is paying $20 to $50 per user for n8n Cloud, or spending valuable engineering hours maintaining self-hosted instances, you need to pay attention. If you're short on time…  ( 8 min )

Ever spent hours setting up a new Mac for development? Installing Homebrew packages, configuring dotfiles, tweaking system settings, arranging your Dock... it's tedious and error-prone. What if you could automate everything with a simple Ruby DSL that reads like plain English? Meet Hola – a blazing-fast development environment manager that combines the best of Homebrew, mise, and dotfiles management into one cohesive tool. I've been a long-time Chef user because typing endless brew install or apt install commands drives me crazy. Chef's Ruby DSL is perfect – it's readable and expressive. But Chef comes with heavy dependencies, especially on macOS where it installs unnecessary components and even creates system users. Other configuration management tools? Ansible and Salt force you to write…  ( 9 min )

The bubble tea shop always feels a little magical when I walk in for my shift. Even before the lights come up or the blenders start humming, there’s this sweet smell in the air. It’s a mix of brown sugar syrup, fresh tea, and whatever fruity flavor someone wrapped up the night before. It reminds me of the first warm day after winter, when everything feels soft and new. I slip behind the counter, tie my apron, and take a quick look around at the toppings bar standing like a colorful parade. Pearls, jellies, puddings, popping bursts, the works. Even when I’m tired, that little lineup wakes me up. Opening duties are simple. Shake the containers a bit so everything looks fresh, refill the pearls if they look low, check the ice, and make sure all the teas are brewed and cooled just right. I alw…  ( 11 min )

How the same patterns that saved backend APIs can transform your CLI architecture 💡 TL;DR - The Safe Migration Strategy: Extract commands to external plugins (publish as beta) Add plugins as dependencies in your core (v2.x - zero breaking changes) Gather feedback, iterate, stabilize Remove dependencies in v3.0.0 (breaking change, but prepared) Users install only what they need Result: Safe migration + independent plugin evolution Remember when your CLI was just a little tool with 3 commands? Yeah, me too. Then product asked for "just one more feature"... and another... and another. Now you're maintaining a 50-command behemoth where changing one line breaks three unrelated commands. Welcome to the CLI monolith trap. Here's the thing: CLIs go through the exact same evolution as b…  ( 12 min )

In the era of mobile applications, competition has shifted from feature wars to performance wars. Whether it's gaming apps, social applications, or financial tools, performance smoothness and resource consumption directly determine user retention. For iOS developers, finding a suitable performance monitoring tool often means debugging and optimization efficiency can be improved several times. This article is based on the latest iOS 26 system and selects six widely used performance monitoring tools in the developer community for in-depth evaluation: Xcode Instruments, Firebase Performance, New Relic, KeyMob, TestFlight Metrics, PerfDog. Through comparisons in dimensions such as functionality, accuracy, ease of use, and platform support, it helps developers choose the performance monitoring …  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: [Learning Reflections OR Capstone Showcase] Over the past week, I completed the Kaggle × Google 5-Day Intensive Program — a fast-paced, hands-on sprint that helped me dive into Python for Data Science, Machine Learning basics, and Kaggle-style workflows. Below, I’m sharing the full structure of the course, how I experienced each day, what I built, and the skills I gained. If you’re starting out in ML or thinking of trying Kaggle, this might help you decide if this path is for you. 📅 Course Structure & My Daily Experience Day 1 — Getting Started: Python Basics + Kaggle Environment ✔️ Introduction to the Kaggle environment: Notebooks, datasets, competitions. ✔️ Brushed up on Python essentials — lists, dictionaries, loops, cond…  ( 7 min )

My 5-Day Journey with the Kaggle AI Agents Intensive – What I Learned & Built I recently participated in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive by Kaggle. This challenge taught me how to understand, build, and deploy AI agents in a simple and practical way. In this post, I am sharing my learning experience and the project I built for the Capstone Challenge. ⭐ Why I Joined the Intensive I joined because I wanted to learn how modern AI systems work—especially agents that can: take actions, understand instructions, interact with tools, and solve real problems. Before starting, I had very little knowledge. But the course made everything easy. ⭐ What I Learned Each Day 📌 Day 1 – Understanding Agents I learned what an AI Agent is, how it works, and why agents are important in real-world apps. 📌 Day 2 – Tool Use I learned how agents can use external tools like: search, code execution, data processing. 📌 Day 3 – Planning I understood how agents break tasks into smaller steps before solving them. 📌 Day 4 – Multi-Agent Systems I learned that multiple agents can work together—each with different skills. 📌 Day 5 – Deployment I deployed my own agent using Kaggle Notebooks and made it publicly viewable. ⭐ My Project: AI Fashion Outfit Recommendation Agent For the final day, I created an agent that recommends outfits based on: user preferences, color choices, style, occasion. The agent analyzes user input and suggests a matching outfit that looks stylish and simple. ⭐ What I Gained from the Intensive Clear understanding of AI agents Ability to build a working agent Knowledge of planning, tool-use, and multi-agent design A complete project to showcase More confidence to explore AI career paths ⭐ Final Thoughts This 5-Day AI Agents Intensive was one of the best short courses I’ve completed. It was simple, beginner-friendly, and focused on hands-on learning. I recommend it to anyone who wants to start learning AI in a practical way. Thank you Kaggle & Google DeepMind for this opportunity!  ( 7 min )

Displaying tabular data on the web can often be a challenge. While Excel spreadsheets are incredibly powerful for data organization and analysis, their native .xlsx or .xls formats are not directly renderable by web browsers. This often leaves developers searching for efficient ways to bridge the gap between rich Excel data and web-friendly formats. The solution? Converting Excel to HTML using C#. This article will guide you through this process, leveraging the robust capabilities of Spire.XLS for .NET to transform your Excel data into clean, accessible HTML. The reasons for converting Excel files to HTML are numerous and primarily revolve around enhancing accessibility and interoperability: Web Display: HTML is the native language of the web. Converting Excel data allows it to be seamle…  ( 9 min )

The 5-Day AI Agents Intensive was honestly one of the most eye-opening learning experiences I’ve had in AI so far. Before this course, I had a basic idea of what “agents” were, but now I understand how they actually think, plan, interact with tools, coordinate with other agents, and solve problems end-to-end. Here are my reflections and key learnings from the week: 🔍 What Concepts Resonated the Most With Me The Difference Between LLMs and Agents I always thought agents were just “smart prompts,” but this course made me see the bigger picture. Tool Use + Planning = Real Intelligence The idea that an agent can call APIs, search, run code, analyze data, and then use that information to make decisions felt extremely powerful. Multi-Agent Collaboration This was my favourite concept — giving different agents different roles and watching them coordinate. Reliability, Guardrails & Iteration Loops Before this, I didn’t think too much about failure modes. 🧠 How My Understanding of AI Agents Has Evolved Before this course: After the course: This shift from prompting to system design is the biggest evolution in my mindset. 💡 Overall Reflections This course didn’t just teach me how to build agents — it changed the way I think about AI systems. I’m excited because agents are clearly the next big thing, and after this intensive, I feel much more prepared to build with them. 🏁 Final Thoughts Huge thanks to the Google × Kaggle team for creating such a well-structured and approachable learning experience. If anyone is curious about agentic AI or wants to start building real autonomous systems, I’d definitely recommend going through the course material on Kaggle’s Discord and Learn Guide. Looking forward to building more agentic workflows and exploring this space even deeper! 🤖✨  ( 7 min )

When the fog rolls in and lightning strikes, you know you're not in Kansas anymore... It started on a dark and stormy night (okay, it was actually a Tuesday afternoon, but let me set the mood here). I wanted to build something that combined my love for atmospheric visuals with practical functionality. What if checking the weather could be... spooky? Enter the Eerie Weather App — a 3D weather visualization experience where a haunted floating house reacts to real-time weather conditions from cities around the world. Rain? The skies darken and droplets fall. Thunderstorm? Lightning cracks across the sky with an eerie glow. It's like having your own personal haunted house that tells you whether to bring an umbrella. The floating house awaits, shrouded in eternal twilight... Every good haunted…  ( 10 min )

Taking part in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course was a transformative experience that reshaped how I think about autonomous systems. Each day blended discussion, experimentation, and practical exercises, giving me a grounded understanding of how AI agents operate in real scenarios—from simple task execution to more cooperative multi-agent interactions. Key Takeaways A major insight for me was recognizing how different AI agents are from conventional chatbots. Rather than waiting for prompts and responding, agents can draw on tools, gather information, and make step-by-step decisions to work toward a goal. Seeing this distinction in action helped me appreciate how agent-based systems can support more dynamic problem-solving. I also gained a clearer picture of how memory and coordination …  ( 7 min )

I realize I'm building plugins for a "niche within a niche"—using Neovim for Unreal Engine C++ development. But honestly? It's becoming surprisingly capable. This week, I shipped some massive updates to the UnrealDev.nvim ecosystem. From Perforce integration to a wizard for generating UPROPERTY macros, here is what’s new! Health Checks for Peace of Mind :checkhealth UnrealDev I added a health check command to verify that your Unreal Engine development environment is set up correctly. Since nvim-treesitter parsers don't always auto-update with plugin managers, things can sometimes get out of sync. If something feels off, just run this command to troubleshoot instantly. Finally... Perforce (P4) Support! You can't talk about Unreal Engine development without mentioning Perforce. It's the i…  ( 9 min )

Device repair shouldn’t feel like a horror movie. 👻 Inspiration — When a Simple Idea Meets Real Need 🛠️ What FixIt AI Does ⚙️ How I Used Kiro to Build FixIt AI 🟣 1. Vibe Coding — My Main Workflow 🟣 2. Spec-Driven Development 🟣 3. Steering 🟣 4. Rapid Prototyping & Debugging 🟣 5. Creativity + User Experience 🚀 What I Learned 😅 Challenges I Faced 🎯 Final Thoughts 🔗 Try it here https://fixit-ai-kiroween.netlify.app https://fixit-backend-up86.onrender.com https://github.com/legendstechgh/fixit-backend 🧡 If you enjoyed this or want to collaborate, connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvin-messiwotso-akaba-544565398/ 👻 Powered by Kiro.  ( 9 min )

Java remains one of the most influential programming languages in the world—powering enterprise applications, Android apps, financial systems, cloud platforms, and millions of backend services. If you want a language that is stable, scalable, secure, and widely used across industries, Java is an excellent choice. In this article, you’ll learn Java from the ground up, including syntax, object-oriented programming, advanced concepts, and practical code examples. Whether you are new to programming or transitioning from another language, this guide will help you write clean, production-ready Java code. 1. What Is Java and Why Is It Popular? Java is a class-based, object-oriented, platform-independent, strongly typed programming language. Key Features Platform Independent (“Write Once, Ru…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections* The AI Agents Intensive has honestly been one of the most eye-opening learning experiences I’ve had in a long time. When I joined, I had a basic idea of what AI agents were—but I definitely didn’t understand how they think, how they make decisions, or how much autonomy they can actually have. This course completely changed that. Concepts That Truly Stuck With Me are: (1) Reasoning Loops & Agent Architecture: Understanding frameworks like React and Reflexion helped me see the “mindset” behind an agent—how it observes, reasons, plans, and then acts. It felt like I was finally seeing the blueprint of intelligence. (2) Tool Use: This was a big “aha” moment. Realizing that agents become powerful when they can…  ( 7 min )

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Compiler 🦀 It was 3 AM. I was staring at my screen, watching npm install crawl through its 47,000th dependency. My React app needed one simple date picker. One. The node_modules folder? 1.2GB. The actual code I wrote? 200 lines. That's when I decided: enough is enough. Let's be honest about what we've normalized: "Just run npm audit fix" — Translation: Play Russian roulette with your dependencies and pray nothing breaks. "Works on my machine" — Because somehow, in 2025, we still can't reliably reproduce builds. "Add @ts-ignore here" — TypeScript's way of saying "I give up, you're on your own." "node_modules is only 800MB" — Said with a straight face, as if that's acceptable for a todo app. We've gaslit ourselves into thinking this is fine. I…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections  ( 6 min )

Hi everyone, I've been hearing the term 'vibe coding' recently, and somehow I found myself riding that wave. After a few days of just tinkering with an AI, I managed to build and even publish two small apps to the Microsoft Store. It's been a truly amazing and surprising experience! Riding that high, I got ambitious and started on a third program, but I've hit an unexpected wall and would love to get your advice. My goal is to make the PC experience smarter using voice commands and AI. OmniVoiceKey: A free voice recognition utility I built out of frustration with the native voice recognition in Windows 10. It lets you use a hotkey to recognize your voice and preview the text, and it works directly in the Windows environment without needing any special APIs. QuickAskAI: A utility that lets …  ( 8 min )

Who am I & why Kiroween? Hi! I'm a DevOps/SRE engineer who lives in the terminal more than in the browser. When I saw Kiroween’s categories – especially Frankenstein and Costume Contest – it felt like an excuse to finally build the terminal app I always wanted: Something visually loud and fun, even though it's in a terminal Still useful for day-to-day work (not just a toy) And built in a very “Kiro-native” way: specs, steering docs, and agent hooks ntomb – the undead connections monitor Working title: ntomb – undead connections monitor The idea is simple: Take boring connection lists like ss, netstat, or /proc data, and turn them into a spooky TUI graveyard of connections. Instead of: text tcp ESTAB 0 0 127.0.0.1:8080 127.0.0.1:53412 nginx I want something like: 💀 “Undead…  ( 9 min )

La fábrica de Santa ha empezado a recibir la lista de producción de juguetes. Los elfos, como siempre, han metido la pata: han apuntado algunos juguetes con cantidades que no tienen sentido. Tienes una lista de objetos con esta forma: toy: el nombre del juguete (string) quantity: cuántas unidades hay que fabricar (number) Tu tarea es escribir una función que reciba esta lista y devuelva un array de strings con: Cada juguete repetido tantas veces como indique quantity const production1 = [ { toy: 'car', quantity: 3 }, { toy: 'doll', quantity: 1 }, { toy: 'ball', quantity: 2 } ] const result1 = manufactureGifts(production1) console.log(result1) // ['car', 'car', 'car', 'doll', 'ball', 'ball'] const production2 = [ { toy: 'train', quantity: 0 }, // no se fabrica { toy: 'bear', quantity: -2 }, // tampoco { toy: 'puzzle', quantity: 1 } ] const result2 = manufactureGifts(production2) console.log(result2) // ['puzzle'] const production3 = [] const result3 = manufactureGifts(production3) console.log(result3) // [] Mi solución: Puedes seguir todos los retos del Advent.js en este tweed de @midudev // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1995586403544002855-359'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1995586403544002855&theme=dark" }  ( 7 min )

I joined the Kaggle 5-Day AI Agents Intensive because I wanted to start learning about AI and understand how agents work. I was not able to watch all the live classes due to my personal schedule, but I still learned valuable things from the guide and shared resources. The AI Agents Learn Guide helped me understand the basic ideas in a simple way — especially how agents make decisions, interact with environments, and complete tasks. Even though I couldn’t finish every lesson, the course gave me confidence to learn more about AI step by step. This experience inspired me to continue exploring new topics and revisit the recorded content when I have more time. I am thankful to Kaggle for creating such an easy-to-follow program. This intensive has motivated me to improve my skills and stay consistent in my learning journey.  ( 6 min )

Introduction The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a revolutionary open protocol developed by Anthropic that enables AI assistants like Claude to connect with external data sources and tools. In this article, I'll guide you through building your own MCP server that can be used with Claude Desktop, VSCode, and other compatible clients. MCP provides a standardized way for AI assistants to interact with external systems. Think of it as a universal adapter that allows Claude to: Access databases and APIs Read and write files Execute commands Interact with web services The protocol defines a client-server architecture where: MCP Clients (like Claude Desktop or VSCode) connect to servers MCP Servers expose specific capabilities (resources, tools, and prompts) Communication happens via JSON-RPC 2…  ( 8 min )

Day 3: Multi-Agent Systems - The Supervisor Pattern Welcome to Day 3. We have a single agent that can use tools. But as tasks get complex, a single prompt becomes overwhelmed. It's hard to be a "Researcher, Writer, Editor, and Coder" all at once. The solution is Multi-Agent Systems. We break the brain into specialized distinct personas. We will build a graph where two agents collaborate: Researcher: Has access to search tools. Its system prompt is "You are a researcher...". Writer: Has NO tools. Its system prompt is "You are a writer...". They communicate by adding messages to the shared State. We use a helper function to create nodes. Notice how we bindTools only to the Researcher. The Writer doesn't even know tools exist, which prevents it from hallucinating tool calls. const createA…  ( 7 min )

Day 2: Introduction to LangGraph - From Chains to Agents Yesterday, we built a Chain. It was a straight line: Input -> Retrieve -> Answer. This is where LangGraph comes in. It treats your AI application as a Graph (nodes and edges) rather than a Chain (a list of steps). In a Chain, data flows from one step to the next like a bucket brigade. In LangGraph, there is a central State object that everyone reads from and writes to. It's like a shared whiteboard. // The State is just a list of messages import { MessagesAnnotation } from "@langchain/langgraph"; // MessagesAnnotation is a pre-built state definition for chat apps. Nodes are just JavaScript functions. They take the current State, do some work, and return an update to the State. const agentNode = async (state) => { // Read the his…  ( 7 min )

Day 1: Foundations of Agentic AI - RAG and Vector Stores Welcome to the first day of our 4-day series on building Agentic AI applications with LangChain and LangGraph. Over this series, we will evolve a simple script into a sophisticated, human-in-the-loop multi-agent system. Today, we start with the bedrock of modern AI apps: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are frozen in time. They don't know about your private data, your company's wiki, or the news from this morning. If you ask them about it, they might "hallucinate" (make things up). RAG is a technique to "inject" knowledge into the LLM's prompt before it answers. It works in two phases: Ingestion: Preparing your data for search. Retrieval: Finding the right data and sending it to the LL…  ( 8 min )

Day 4: Production Patterns - Persistence and Human-in-the-Loop Welcome to the final day. We have a smart team of agents. But in the real world, scripts crash, users get distracted, and sometimes the AI makes a mistake that a human needs to catch. Today we cover two critical features for production apps: Persistence (Memory) and Human-in-the-Loop. Standard scripts lose all memory when they finish. LangGraph has a built-in Checkpointer system. It saves the State to a database (or memory) after every single step. This allows: Long-running conversations: Like ChatGPT threads. Resume on failure: If the app crashes, you can reload the state and continue. Time Travel: You can actually go back to a previous step and try a different path! import { MemorySaver } from "@langchain/langgraph";…  ( 7 min )

See Through Walls: AI's New Eye on Occluded Motion Ever struggle to get accurate motion capture when hands are intertwined, hidden behind objects, or even just slightly out of view? Standard computer vision systems often falter when faced with these real-world occlusions, leading to jerky animations, unreliable robotic control, and frustrating user experiences. But what if an AI could "see through" these obstructions and accurately track movement even when parts are hidden? The solution lies in a novel approach to visual feature extraction: a deformable state space model. Imagine it as a highly adaptable, intelligent filter that not only analyzes local features (like the edge of a finger) but also dynamically adjusts its focus to gather contextual information from the entire scene. This …  ( 7 min )

Kling AI is making waves in the generative AI space, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in video creation. Their latest innovation, VIDEO 2.6, is not just another iteration; it represents a significant leap forward, particularly with its groundbreaking feature: native audio. This release signals a pivotal moment for multimedia content generation, moving us closer to truly immersive and realistic AI-generated experiences.\n\nWhat exactly does \"native audio\" mean for VIDEO 2.6? Traditionally, AI video models often generate visuals, and audio is then a separate, often manual, post-production step or generated by a different model and then synched. This approach can lead to disjointed experiences, where audio and video don't feel organically connected. VIDEO 2.6 changes this by integr…  ( 11 min )

4-Day Series - Agentic AI with LangChain/LangGraph - Day 0 Welcome to the 4-day series on building Agentic AI applications with LangChain and LangGraph in Node.js. Node.js: Ensure you have Node.js installed (v18+ recommended). API Keys: Create a .env file in the root directory (copy from .env.example). Add your OPENAI_API_KEY. (Optional) Add TAVILY_API_KEY if you want to use real search in Day 3 (code defaults to mock). npm install This series is designed to take you from basic LLM interactions to building a production-ready, human-in-the-loop agentic workflow. Day 1: Foundations (RAG) Concepts: Embeddings, Vector Stores, Retrieval Augmented Generation. Goal: Build a "Smart Reader" that can answer questions about your private data. Run: node day1-foundations/1-simple-chat.js node day1-foundations/2-rag-chain.js Day 2: Intro to LangGraph (Agents) Concepts: StateGraphs, Nodes, Edges, Conditional Logic, Tools. Goal: Refactor the linear RAG chain into an autonomous Agent that decides when to search. Run: node day2-langgraph/agent.js Day 3: Multi-Agent Systems Concepts: Supervisor Pattern, Specialized Agents, Shared State. Goal: Orchestrate a team of agents (Researcher + Writer) to collaborate on a task. Run: node day3-multi-agent/team.js Day 4: Advanced Patterns (Persistence & Control) Concepts: Checkpointers (Memory), Interrupts, Human-in-the-loop. Goal: Add "Time Travel" and Human Approval steps to make the agent safe for production. Run: node day4-advanced/human-loop.js Next Post  ( 6 min )

Monetization Without Paywalls: The Future of AI Apps is Here with Monetzly The biggest challenge in the AI space today isn't just about building smarter applications—it's about monetizing them without alienating users. How do you keep your AI app free while generating sustainable revenue? Enter Monetzly, the first platform designed for developers to monetize their applications while enhancing user experience through conversation-native advertising. As AI applications explode in popularity, many developers find themselves grappling with a critical question: How can I generate revenue without imposing paywalls or subscriptions that frustrate my users? Traditional monetization strategies often lead to a trade-off: improved revenue versus user experience. But what if you could have both? Mon…  ( 7 min )

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps-based continuous delivery (CD) tool for Kubernetes. It automates the deployment and lifecycle management of applications in a cluster by using Git repositories as the single source of truth for the desired state of the infrastructure. This article explains how to set up Argo CD and deploy an application in a Kubernetes cluster using the command line and manifests. Installed the kind with Cloud Provider KIND Installed ArgoCD CLI Kubernetes Cluster # kind-cluster.yaml kind: Cluster apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4 networking: apiServerPort: 6443 nodes: - role: control-plane - role: worker - role: worker - role: worker $ kind create cluster --config kind-cluster.yaml Creating cluster "kind" ... • Ensuring node image (kindest/node:…  ( 10 min )

I Didn't Build PRANKIX in 24 Hours. Kiro Did. Here's How. The Problem Party games never evolve. Same 6-10 games every time. There's no personalization. No AI. Just repetition. I wanted to build an app that generates infinite unique party games tailored to your group size, equipment, location, and vibe. But building something this complex? 28 screens, 6 games, real-time multiplayer, Gemini AI integration, Firebase backend? That's 6-8 weeks of work for a team of senior engineers. I didn't have 6-8 weeks. I had a hackathon deadline. Instead of jumping into code, I spent 4 hours writing the most comprehensive spec I could imagine. Not vague. Not high-level. Specific. I documented: Vision and problem statement All 6 game mechanics (Bluff Master, Cinematic Bluff, Word Fusion, Improv…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections  ( 6 min )

BNY, Nasdaq, iCapital and S&P Global invested in Digital Assets, powering blockchain infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets.  ( 31 min )

Deutsche Börse Group (DBG) and Kraken announced a strategic partnership signalling acceleration of crypto adoption across Europe and a clear intention to compete with Wall Street.  ( 33 min )

Low-liquidity in December may cap bitcoin's recovery rally, but rangebound trading for the largest crypto could benefit smaller digital assets, Wincent's Paul Howard said.  ( 32 min )